Adventures of Tin Can Lulu

The last stop in Colorado was Steamboat Springs. Just like Aspen, it is an upscale town but has a western flair to it. Founded in 1900, Steamboat Springs is a thriving, authentic city with its roots deeply planted in the American West. At 6,700 feet in the Rocky Mountains, this…

The historic City of Central, commonly known as Central City, is a historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush and came to be known as the “Richest Square Mile on Earth”. Gold mining in the Central City district decreased rapidly between 1900 and 1920, as the veins were exhausted. Casino gambling…

Silt is a little town (about 20 miles west of Glenwood Springs) began as George Ferguson’s Ranch after the Ute Indians’ land was opened up to homesteading in 1881. The area was named Ferguson until 1889, when the Denver and Rio Grande Junction Railway named their depot “Silt” after the…

The City of Gunnison got its name from the first known European-American explorer of the area, John W. Gunnison. He was searching for a route for the transcontinental railroad in 1853. In the early 1800s, the groups moving into the Gunnison area were mainly fur trappers and mountain men, trying…