Attractions waiting to attract
Colorado has dozens of locations that would qualify as heritage sites, but many are not ready for tourists, says Barb Pahl, director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Mountains/Plains Office. Among those that could be considered:
Fort Garland, home to Kit Carson, Buffalo Soldiers, American Indians
Redstone, steel magnate John Osborne’s vision for a utopian workers’ community, and the nearby quarry in Marble
Goodnight Barn in Pueblo, one of the few remaining structures from the days of Charles Goodnight, who transported cattle north from Texas along the Goodnight-Loving trail
Town of San Luis, one of Colorado’s earliest Hispanic settlements
Silverton, an early mining town with restored mill and the Durango & Silverton train depot
Boggsville, southeast Colorado pioneer town
Bent’s Fort, early pioneer fort
Mesa Verde, home of renowned cliff dwellings
Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Ancestral Puebloan petroglyphs, artifacts and dwellings
Georgetown, built during the height of the mining boom, with a narrow-gauge train, Hotel de Paris and other historic structures
Grenada, Japanese-American internment site during the 1940s
Molly Brown House museum in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood
Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel
Central City, turn-of-the- century mining town with period opera house and hotel
