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These mountain towns are the kind of places where the lady on Main Street with the kayak over her shoulder throws a neighborly nod your way and the corner barista welcomes customers by first name.

Collegiate Peaks: Leadville, Salida & Buena Vista

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There are special places and unique vistas around nearly every Colorado corner. You can help ensure these places exist for generations to come by staying on roads and trails, keeping speeds in check, leaving campsites and picnic spots just as you found them, and following instructional signs while you’re out and about in our state.

Travel Like a Local

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Experience life as a miner at the National Mining Hall of Fame &amp; Museum in Leadville, Colorado. Tour mine replicas and crystal caves, see miners' equipment, and explore exhibits on mining's impact. Kids will love the walk-through coal mine and model train layout.

National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum

We are located in the green brick building in the center of downtown Leadville, just south of the traffic light. The shop is a warm place to relax, use the internet, meet up with old friends or make some new friends.

City on a Hill Coffee & Espresso

Perched at an altitude of nearly two miles and surrounded by some of Colorado’s tallest mountains, the Healy House Museum &amp; Dexter Cabin depict Western life in Leadville as a booming 19th-century silver mining town. These private homes were built in the late 1800s and restored and furnished to illustrate life during the bonanza mining period. Visitors can enjoy magnificent views, stroll through the vibrant, lush gardens, and take a guided tour of these iconic structures.

Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin

We, the High Mountain Pies Culinary Team, are dedicated in our quest to broadcast our fresh and delicious pizza to the hungry world via our mountaintop pizza shop.

High Mountain Pies

The Delaware Mercantile at The Delaware Hotel is Leadville's largest and most unique shopping experience. From clothing to jewelry, souvenirs to toys, antiques to artwork, The Delaware Mercantile is open year-round. A portion of the shop is in the hotel lobby. So, gu

The Delaware Mercantile at the Delaware Hotel

With lodging, dining and shopping all under one roof, the Delaware Hotel is a one-of-a-kind property in Leadville, if not in Colorado. Perfect for small groups, intimate meetings, reunions, families.

The Historic Delaware Hotel

We use organic, locally-sourced ingredients wherever possible to create delicious plates that feed your soul after your mountain adventures. Think local mountain vibe meets metropolitan quality.

Tennessee Pass Cafe

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This paved 57-mile route parallels the Continental Divide at the foot of the Sawatch Range.
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Collegiate Peaks Scenic and Historic Byway

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Make your way along through the state's towering peaks and valleys from Leadville to Salida.

Take the Byway to Salida

Arkansas-Riverside Salida was named one of Outside Magazine's Top 10 Best Small Towns in 2009, and since then it's become even better! Its friendly downtown is truly a creative district, packed with studios and galleries, locally focused eateries and shops, breweries, distilleries and more - all of which make beautiful and creative use of the town's Victorian-era buildings. Long appreciated by rafters, mountain-bikers and fourteener climbers, Salida's reaching all kinds of new travelers these days.  
<a href="https://www.colorado.com/articles/salida-creative-district-art-adventure-colorado">Salida Creative District: Art With an Adventurous Side &gt;&gt;</a>

Salida Creative District

Our menu is created with the highest quality ingredients. Custom-blended brisket burgers, turkey burgers, grilled chicken, fresh fish, salads and sandwiches. Everything is made in house with fresh, local ingredients.

50 Burger Shakes & Beer

We all had the same dream of starting a brewery that brewed the highest quality barrel aged and specialty beers we could imagine. At the same time we all dreamed of living in an area of Colorado that would allow us to sneak out of the brewhouse to catch a four-pound trout, hike a 14,000-foot peak, or slash through some of ColoradoÍs famous powder. In the winter of 2012 we made our dreams a reality and took the leap and started brewing in Poncha Springs, Colorado.

Elevation Beer Company

Located in Nathrop between <a href="http://www.mtprinceton.com/buena-vista-colorado">Buena Vista</a> and <a href="http://www.mtprinceton.com/salida-colorado">Salida</a>. Ideal for family vacations, romantic getaways, <a href="http://www.mtprinceton.com/wedding-facility">mountain weddings</a> or <a href="http://www.mtprinceton.com/event-facility">corporate events</a>. Enjoy a one-day <a href="https://mtprinceton.com/hot-springs/">hot springs</a> experience or relax with an overnight stay at this unique family-friendly, <a href="http://mtprinceton.com/history/">historic hot springs resort</a>.

Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort

Down-to-earth place offering hearty servings of American fare, including breakfast, plus a bar.

Jan's Restaurant

Noah's Ark Whitewater Rafting is a one-stop-shop for adventuring together. Take on the class III+ rapids of the Arkansas River and Colorado's very first aerial adventure at Browns Canyon Adventure Park, both from our property in Buena Vista, CO.

Noah's Ark Whitewater Rafting

Wood-fired pizza &amp; grill, Award winning Ales &amp; Lagers, Colorado's only 16oz micro-cannery!

Eddyline Restaurant, Brewery & Taphouse

Dual-sport &amp; adventure MOTORCYCLE RENTALS: KTM, Husqvarna, and BMW. Guided all-inclusive and self-guided motorcycle TOURS, multi-day and single-day.

Accelerate Adventures

House Rock Kitchen is a fast casual, from scratch, healthy, fun option in Buena Vista.

House Rock Kitchen

This family-owned micro-distillery is nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountain's Collegiate Peaks in downtown Buena Vista, Colorado. With our primary focus on artisan American style whiskey, we hand-craft our spirits from start to finish in small batches. It was no mistake that we chose to build our distillery within the Arkansas River Valley. Along with the awe inspiring mountain views and epic kayaking „ the same glacial water that flows down the continental divide to feed our rivers also happens to make a perfect starting point for our whiskey. With this pristine water, we mash in the finest locally grown and malted grains. Much in the way a craft-brewed beer is built from a variety of roasted and kilned barley to impart character, we also utilize these flavorful grains to add a unique complexity to our whiskey. We then double distill through a hand crafted copper pot still, using tried and true techniques with a twist of our own modern innovation. Each batch of Deerhammer is meticulously crafted one barrel at a time to bring forth flavors unlike anything you've ever experienced. Simple. Honest. Colorado whiskey.

Deerhammer Distilling Company

Come soak in Colorado's purest, geothermal, gravity-fed mineral spas. Historically noted for their medicinal and therapeutic value, the springs were used for centuries by the Ute Indians as a spiritual gathering place. Today, people have come from all over the world to soak in the curative waters. Located 5.5 miles west of Buena Vista.