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Mine Tours & Gold Panning

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Colorado’s factory and mine tours are a popular way to see the state’s sites and learn about its history. And gold-panning adventures can give you a real taste of Colorado's Gold Rush era.

 

A tour guide in a red jacket and yellow hard hat leads a group of people through a dimly lit tunnel
A tour of the Hidee Gold Mine in Central City
A tour group, all wearing hairnets, look at the boxing machinery at a tea factory
A tour of the Celestial Seasonings tea factory
An underground mine scene with dim lighting and rock walls in a mining museum
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville

You won’t have to do much digging to uncover the many historic mine tours in Colorado. Explore all the tunnels and learn why prospectors came looking for fortune. Go deep inside historic mines, see artifacts and learn how gold and silver mining shaped the Colorado of today.

Another Colorado sightseeing attraction is the factory tour, including behind-the-scene peeks of breweries, tea factories and more.

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