Leadville, Colorado is charming, welcoming, historical, and easy to get around. If you're looking for a walkable Colorado ...

"We just have to wait," said Dan Jensen, owner of the fixed-base operation, acknowledging the difficulty of getting off the ground in Leadville - for both planes and businesses. Ever since the Climax ...

Another account calls the Ice Palace “a Colossus in the Colorado Rockies ... that also foretold Leadville’s tourism future. “Very early on, it was very much a mining town,” Brokaw ...

Leadville is about 100 miles west of Denver and 160 miles from Fort Collins. This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Free shuttle from historic mining town to Colorado ski ...

But that vision died when most of Leadville’s miners went on strike in June 1896, seeking better pay. As the strike lingered into fall, the Colorado National Guard was called up to help quell ...

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