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Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort
The Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort, near Creede, Colorado, is the historic name of what is now a dude ranch, the 4UR Ranch. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. Of 26 buildings on the property, 14 were deemed to be contributing to the historic character of the listed area, and there were 4 contributing structures and a contributing object. It was originally developed in the 1870s, with soaking pools and relatively simple lodging. The Wagon Wheel Gap Improvement Company bought the property in the 1890s and made improvements during 1902-05 which established a "rustic character". Artifacts include a dinner bell cast in about 1949. Includes historic photos. The registration also included 36 photos from 2018 which are not included in this PDF. It is located about southeast of Creede, and about south of Wagon Wheel Gap Wagon Wheel Gap is a gap alongside the Rio Grande River, southeast of Creede Mineral County, Colorado. Wagon Wheel Gap, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creede, Colorado
The historic City of Creede is (despite its official name) a Statutory Town and the county seat of Mineral County, Colorado, United States. It is the most populous community and the only incorporated municipality within the county. The town population was 257 at the 2020 United States census. History ] Travelers to this area appeared in the early 19th century. Tom Boggs, a brother-in-law of Kit Carson, farmed at Wagon Wheel Gap in the summer of 1840. The first silver discovery was made at the Alpha mine in 1869, but the silver could not be extracted at a profit from the complex ores. Ranchers and homesteaders moved in when stagecoach stations (linking the mining operations over the Divide with the east) were built in the 1870s, but the great "Boom Days" started with the discovery of rich minerals in Willow Creek Canyon in 1889. Creede was the last silver boom town in Colorado in the 19th century. The town leapt from a population of 600 in 1889 to more than 10,000 people in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creede Caldera
The San Juan volcanic field is part of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It consists mainly of volcanic rocks that form the largest remnant of a major Composite Volcanoes, composite volcanic field that covered most of the southern Rocky Mountains in the Middle Tertiary geologic time.Steven, Thomas A.; Lipman, Peter W. (1976)"Calderas of the San Juan Volcanic Field, Southwestern Colorado" ''U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers''. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 958: 1–35. Retrieved 2012-05-16. There are approximately fifteen calderas known in the San Juan Volcanic Fields; however, it is possible that there are two or even three more in the region. The region began with many composite volcanoes that became active between 35 and 40 million years ago, with peak activity in the time period around 35-30 million years ago. Around this time the activity began to include explosive ash-flow eruptions. Many of these volcanoes experienced caldera colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
