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Q: In the 1970s, we lived in Littleton. One time, some acquaintances of ours took us to dinner at a restaurant in Beaver. We went there and back in one evening. We subsequently moved out of state and never again had the opportunity to visit Beaver. However, in the last several years, we have moved to Colorado Springs. We have searched for Beaver on a state map and find no trace of it. … Can you provide us with any information about Beaver, where it was and what happened to it?
A: There is no record that could be found of a town called only Beaver. There are many streams, mines, mountains and camps with names that include “Beaver,” but no current town. There were several towns or stage stops about the turn of the 20th century, but they no longer exist. One of those settlements in the early 1900s was near what later became Penrose in Fremont County. It was sometimes called Beaver, Beaver Creek or Beaver Park.
There is a Beaver Brook Lodge in Clear Creek County and a Beaver Brook Ranch in Jefferson County near Squaw Pass that show up on topozone.com and mapquest.com, but no other information was found. According to the Clear Creek County Chamber of Commerce, Beaver Brook Ranch may at one time have been open to the public for dinner but is not currently.
Beaver Creek Resort near Vail is well-known, but it was not completed until December 1980.
Beaver Point – outside Estes Park just before entering Rocky Mountain National Park at the Beaver Meadows entrance – has a restaurant, “The Other Side,” that has been there for decades. Beaver Point was an early settlement in the 1890s but is now a small community, not considered a town.
Sources: Eagle County Historical Society, Colorado Historical Society, Beaver Creek Resort, Clear Creek County, Estes Park, TopoZone.com
– Compiled by Bonnie Gilbert
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