Mining In Colorado

Day 5 – 09/19/2018

This morning we got up and had breakfast in the hotel and then headed to Cripple Creek. When we got there we had lunch at sandwich shop. It was quite tasty. We were a bit disappointed with Cripple Creek. We remembered it much different.

We still wanted to see a small mining town with some character so we went on a little further to Victor. There was a gold mine on the way to Victor that is still active (using modern machinery) . It’s a little sad what it is doing to the mountain but was still kind of interesting.

It was really cool getting to see some of the old mines in Victor.

There was also entire mountains of beautiful aspens in their fall colors.

There were some old abandoned mines that you can walk right up to and see things up close and personal. They are really cool. The one with the fence around it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

 

While driving from Cripple Creek to Colorado Springs we came upon some mountains of aspens in their fall colors that was absolutely beautiful.