Colorado Fly Drive Destination
Leadville

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Leadville Co is a jewel. Leadville has a wonderful facisnating history and is one of America's best kept secrets. Sitting at well over 10,000 ft altitude, Leadville is a town you don't want to miss.....Visit the old mines, including THE MATCHLESS where the Silver King Horace Tabor made his millions, and where his widow, Baby Doe lived alone in poverty and then died in the winter of 1935. Visit one of the world's largest producing Molybdenum mines...Climax...just outside of Leadville on Fremont pass in the Continental Divide.

Leadville is also the home to The national Mining Hall of Fame and Museum opened in 1988. There is a great underground tour of a mine available.