Attractions (in category: Historic Driving Tours)
Travel back in time, with a visit to Pioneer Town in quaint Cedaredge, Colorado. As you walk along the wooden sidewalks of Pioneer Town's Main Street, you can visit the Coalby General Store, the print shop, the saloon, the States mining museum, the Girling Mercantile, the bank, the marshal's office, the jail house, the Wells Fargo office, and the barber shop which also doubled as a dental office.
Trail of the Ancients Historic Byway highlights the long and intriguing occupation of the Four Corners region by Native American peoples. The 114 mile route takes visitors across the terrain of the Anasazi and Navajo and includes Mesa Verde National Park and Howenweep National Monument.
Built in 1892, the former bank currently houses the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center. Construction of the Delta County Bank marked the first instance in Delta of the Victorian Romanesque architectural style.
Gunnison-Crested Butte is Colorado Pure & Simple... Friendly mountain communities that are packaged by nature and combine western heritage with turn of the century Victorian mining towns. We invite you to enjoy our heritage driving tour! Along the way you will experience incredible vistas, meet friendly locals and see that our county is steeped in rich Western and Victorian mining era history. The tour self guides you to interesting sites throughout the county.
Discover the history of the people and heritage of Gunnison at the Gunnison Pioneer Museum. The museum grounds consist of 16 buildings, 12 of which are historic, including an 1876 Gunnison Post Office and a 1905 rural school house. Among the artifacts and memorabilia are a Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge train, Engine #268 and over 60 antique cars.
Explore the "Old West" flavor of Gunnison, one of the oldest municipalities on the Western Slope, through a historic walking tour. During this self-guided tour, visitors will be taken to over 30 residential and commercial sites.
The Town of Crested Butte is one of Colorado's larger Registered National Historic Districts. Many of the buildings in Crested Butte are the original structures from the bustling mining days of the late 1880s. Pick up a free self guided walking tour brochure available at the Crested Butte Heritage Museum and explore the town on your own or schedule a guided tour through the museum.
The Museum is home to a number of exhibits with something to interest almost anyone. The front of the building, which served as a hardware store from 1883-1996, features all the original cases filled with a sampling of the merchandise sold in the building historically. The rear of the building, originally a 1930's working garage, houses exhibits including a functioning model railroad, a life sized mining diorama, one of Crested Buttes original gondolas, and sections on domestic life in Crested Butte. The Museum also houses the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
