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Article: Colorado gold; it's easy to visit historic gold country just west of Denver.
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- June 1, 1989
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It's easy to visit historic gold country just west of Denver
Chugging along in a narrow-gauge steam train, inching down cool mine shafts, swishing a gold pan in a clear stream, or riding horseback past ramshackle mine camps . . . in Colorado's historic gold country, it's easy to touch the past.
A thoroughly modern transportation artery, Interstate 70, gives easy access to five mining towns. All contain buildings of such significance that their downtowns are National Register historic landmarks or historic districts. This accessible gold (and later silver) country is less than an hour west of Denver, off a 50-mile stretch of 1-70.
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