Things to do / Travel Guide
- Breckenridge ski resort in Northwest Colorado boasts the highest chairlift in North America. The Imperial Express Superchair rises to an unbelievable height of 12,840 feet!
- At 50-square miles, Grand Mesa in Northwest Colorado is the world's largest flat-top mountain - just three square miles less than the nation's largest airport, Denver International.
- At an elevation of approximately 10,400 feet, Leadville in South-Central Colorado is the highest city in the U.S.
- More than 12 movies, including How the West Was Won (1963) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), were filmed on the Southwest Colorado Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which has continuously operated since 1881.
- National Lampoon's Vacation, Around the World in Eighty Days, City Slickers, and Cliffhanger were filmed in and around Durango, in Southwest Colorado.
- The San Juan Mountains claim the first AC (alternating current) Power. Durango became fully electrified in 1893 - even before Chicago and New York City!
- Durango's Strater Hotel was the site of former heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey's first win, over Andy Malloy, on October 7th, 1915.
- The world's largest silver nugget (approximately 2,000 pounds) was found in Aspen's Smuggler Mine in Northwest Colorado in 1894.
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