Aside from the spectacular gaming, food and fun we have right here in our three casinos, the area is full of great things to do! Call 877-858-4653 for more information.
Butte Opera House
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
June 18-Sept. 18
Tickets: Adult $15.75; Senior $13.75; Children $9.75; Groups of 20+ $12.75 each.
This musical tells the story of an average day in the life of the famous comic strip child hero, Charlie Brown. Come take a nostalgic trip back with the whole Peanuts Gang! Your favorite comic strip brought to life, Charlie is joined by several of his classic friends, Snoopy (who talks and sings!) his sister Sally, his arch nemesis Lucy, the musical prodigy Schroeder, and the surprise academic Linus. They deal in their own special ways with such juvenile concerns as baseball, sibling rivalry, unrequited love, and school.
Gunslinger: The Legend of Billy the Kid
June 25-Sept. 18
Tickets: Adult $15.75; Senior $13.75; Children $9.75; Groups of 20+ $12.75 each.
The Cripple Creek tradition of Classic Summer Melodrama is alive and well! In this fast-pace play, we follow our hero, a 15 year old Billy, as events (and villains) conspire against him, including the murder of his parents, and his own turn to outlaw. Three years pass before Billy returns home, and while much has changed in the world, two things have not – his need for vengeance, and his love for the beautiful Nell, the girl who had stolen his heart when he was just a boy. The play, originally written in 1906, is adapted for the Butte stage by Mickey Burdick. An all-new Summer Olio.
Pikes Peak Heritage Center at Cripple Creek
In the late 1800s, thousands of fortune-seekers made their way to Pikes Peak. Gold had been discovered, and that discovery started the country’s last great gold rush.
Now, more than a century later, visitors to the region can make their own discoveries at the newest member of Pikes Peak Country Attractions Association, the Pikes Peak Heritage Center at Cripple Creek. This new state-of-the-art interpretive center that overlooks the town of Cripple Creek.
Visitors to the Pikes Peak Heritage Center can learn about gold mining yesterday and today, geologic and human history, view displays that showcase the unique mountain environment, and learn about regional recreational activities and attractions.
This 11,600-square-foot facility is built in a style that is reminiscent of historic Cripple Creek and features interactive displays that allow visitors to immerse themselves in the past glory days of this world-famous gold mining camp, when it was a rambunctious community of miners, ministers and madams. Other displays will showcase captivating historic photography, flora and fauna, the area’s world-class dinosaur discoveries and Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain.
Hours
Memorial Day - Labor Day
9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Prices:
Free
9283 S. Highway 67 Cripple Creek, CO
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
877-858-4653
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The Cripple Creek District Museum
Located on Bennett Avenue in the former Midland-Terminal Railroad Depot, the Museum complex contains three buildings with six floors of mining memorabilia, maps, paintings, glass and china, children's items, furnishings, an assay office, a photograph gallery, Indian artifacts, mineral displays and two Victorian apartments.
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Located at:
5th & Bennett
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
719-689-2634
Outlaws & Lawmen Jail Museum
Relive the outlaw days of the Wild West in one of the most popular Cripple Creek museums: the Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum.
In the late 1800s, the promise of an easy fortune lured people to the gold mines of Cripple Creek; in just ten years, the population grew from 15 to more than 50,000. And like every western gold rush town, Cripple Creek had more than our fair share of miscreants and troublemakers. Fortunately, we also had a brave group of men sworn to keep the outlaws in line. Learn their stories in an authentic Cripple Creek jail museum.
Housed in a red-brick building that served as the Teller County Jail for nearly 90 years, this historic Cripple Creek museum gives visitors an authentic taste of the shadier side of life in the World’s Greatest Gold Camp, along with a glimpse into the lives of the lawmen charged with keeping the peace.
As you can imagine, the jail was never short of occupants. Besides holding local burglars, robbers, highwaymen and other minor criminals, in its original incarnation this Colorado jail museum was also used to hold more serious offenders, including Robert Curry (aka Bob Lee), a member of the “Wild Bunch” gang who was captured after lawmen found him hiding in town.
The curators of our Cripple Creek jail museum have kept the original cells intact, so visitors can experience for themselves what life was like for those on the wrong side of the law. There are also displays highlighting the laws and the lawless, with samples of police logs from the 1890s, copies of early city ordinances and newspaper accounts of crimes both big and small.
Be sure to visit the Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum in historic Cripple Creek. You simply won’t find a more authentic Colorado jail museum experience anywhere else.
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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour
The Mollie Kathleen Mine has been conducting tours since the 1890’s. Witness the operation of numerous pieces of air powered gold mining equipment from drifter drills, tuggers, slushers, stopper drills, jack leg drills, rocker shovel mucking machines and even an early 1900’s air powered steam hoist.
Ride aboard the last air powered Tram-Air Locomotive manufactured in Cripple Creek, Colorado, traveling the same century old mine rail that miners rode.
See samples from Bob Womack’s Gold King Mine of 1890 and the famous C.O.D. Mine that resulted in the massive spontaneous wealth of Charles Tutt and Spencer Penrose.
The Mollie Kathleen Mine is open April through October. Each visitor to the tour receives an ore sample containing real gold. Call (719) 689-2466 for ticket and tour information or email molliegold@rmi.net.
Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine
1 mile N. HWY. 67
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
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Colorado Driving Tours
Scenic Golden Loop Historic Parkway
Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado
Take a drive around The Golden Loop Historical Parkway and discover the real mining history of Victor & Cripple Creek. The 1890’s gold rush made this area one of the most famous mining districts in the world. Thousands flocked to the area in search of golden wealth - leaving behind the mines and towns that still dot the landscape near Victor and Cripple Creek. This driving tour is designed to help you better understand the history of the gold rush as well as the present day mining operations. The tour, courtesy of the Southern Teller County Focus Group, is one of many ways to learn about the rich history in the mining district.
The Golden Loop Historic Parkway
• Little Grouse Mountain Trail - A Natural Interpretive Site
• Golden Loop Driving Tour Through Historic Mining Backcountry Roads
• Gold Camp Trail - Interpreting the History of Poverty Gulch
• Cresson Ore Sorting House - A Recreation of the Original
• Vindicator Valley Including the Theresa & Vindicator Mines
• Stratton’s Independence Mine, A National Historic Register Site
• Battle Mountain Trail - a Millennium Trail
• The Gold Coin Mine, The Legacy That Built Victor
To find our trails, take U.S. Hwy 24 west from Colorado Springs; in Divide turn south on Hwy 67; turn left at the sign to Victor on Teller County Rd. 81.
Cripple Creek and Victor are active mining districts, so we ask that you please stay on public roads and trails.
Colorado Hiking Trails Near Victor, Colorado
This series of interpretive sites and trails is a project of the Southern Teller County Focus Group and is made possible with funding from the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company, and from a State Historical Fund Grant from the Colorado Historical Society.
While enjoying these trails, please respect the property and the remnants of our mining heritage. For your safety, please stay on the trails.
Trails offer beginner to intermediate slopes. Maps are available at all trailheads:
• Independence Mine & Battle Mountain Trail
• The Vindicator Valley Trail
• Gold Coin Mine in Victor, Colorado
• Little Grouse Mountain Trail
• Gold Camp Trail
Trails Reserved for Hiking, Mountain Biking, Cross Country Skiing, Horseback Riding in Historic Gold Mining Country
If you would like copies of the trails brochure or Driving Tour Guides, please write to the Southern Teller County Focus Group at PO Box 328, Victor CO 80860. The tour guides are $1.00 each including shipping. Copies of these materials are available at Victor businesses and the Cripple Creek Welcome Center.
NOTE: Sturdy hiking shoes & clothing appropriate for mountain weather are necessary gear for these backcountry trails. Sites at the Theresa, Vindicator, Independence & Gold Coin Mines are handicap accessible.
Cripple Creek And Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad
Visitors to Cripple Creek will hear the nostalgic whistle of a train. The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad features a steam locomotive that takes visitors on a winding four-mile trip through the historic gold mining district. Trains leave the historic depot daily from mid-May through mid-October, taking visitors on a trip that includes stops at special points of interest and photo opportunities. The track heads south from Cripple Creek, crosses a reconstructed trestle and stops at a deserted mining town before returning.
Royal Gorge Bridge & Park
Located in scenic Cañon City, Colorado, the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park offers breath-taking fun for the whole family. Looming above the Arkansas River, The Royal Gorge Bridge is the world’s highest suspension bridge. Take a stroll in the clouds or enjoy an eagle’s eye view from the Aerial Tram. Get a 360º view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the rambling river 1,100 feet below. Explore the granite canyons on the Incline Railway, ride across the bridge in style aboard the Royal Gorge Trolley, or find your adrenaline on the Royal Rush Skycoaster®, a free-fall ride that flies you 50 miles and hour 1,200 feet off the ground.
For more information or group reservations, call 888-333-5597 or visit RoyalGorgeBridge.com.
Admission prices are subject to change without notice. Credit cards accepted. Free parking
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