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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Cripple Creek

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Cripple Creek, Colorado

Updated February 11, 2020

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Cripple Creek, Colorado

Vindicator Valley Trail

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
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Cripple Creek, Colorado

Christmas Casino & Inn

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.
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Victor, Colorado

Black Monarch Hotel

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.
3 miles from Cripple Creek

Cascade, Colorado

Pikes Peak Summit House

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
8 miles from Cripple Creek

Penrose, Colorado

Phantom Canyon Road

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
11 miles from Cripple Creek

Florissant, Colorado

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
12 miles from Cripple Creek

CaƱon City, Colorado

Garden Park Fossil Area

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.
14 miles from Cripple Creek
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