Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
Bill Carle, right, his sister Barbara Day, left, and her son Dustin manage the Echo Park Lodge near Mount Evans on May 16, 2016 in Idaho Springs. Bill and Barbara’s great grandparents started the concessions at Summit House atop Pikes Peak. Ever since, the Carle family has run many food-and-beverage and retail operations including Red Rocks, Buffalo Bill Museum, gift shops in Manitou Springs and Grand Lake and Mount Evan’s Crest House and Echo Lake Lodge. That is a combined 123 consecutive years, and 5 generations, of running tourism businesses. 51 of those years have been at Echo Lake Lodge. 
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Coloradans who visited Echo Lake Lodge south of Idaho Springs for homemade pie or bison stew will have to say goodbye to the restaurant and gift shop as they know it. The lodge is set to shutter in the fall.
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