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Leadville, circa 1880, with the Eighth Avenue Motel in center of photo, and mining works visible on hill beyond Leadville. Painted bird's eye view of Leadville, 1882. Leadville was founded in 1877 by mine owners Horace Tabor and August Meyer at the start of the Colorado Silver Boom. Tabor's house was also built in 1877, at 116 E. 5th Street. [17]
The Leadville Trail 100 MTB is the second oldest of the well-known 100-mile (160 km) marathon mountain bike races held in the United States, the oldest being the Wilderness 101 in central Pennsylvania. The Leadville Trail 100 MTB was first run in 1994 and has become one of the best marketed, attended and known marathon events in mountain bike ...
Ski Cooper is an alpine ski resort in Colorado, one of the oldest in the state.Opened as Cooper Hill Ski Area in 1942, the ski area served as the training site for the 10th Mountain Division, based at nearby Camp Hale during World War II.
Leadville Race Series Trail 100 Run - Official website of the Leadville Trail 100 Mile; Complete Results at UltraSignup; CoolRunning.com.au - 1998 leadville 100-mile (160 km) race finish: The following is a short description of the incredible finish at the Leadville 100-mile (160 km) trail race by Keith Woestehoff', Kevin Tiller
The Leadville Railroad is a tourist railroad based in Leadville, Colorado, United States. [1] [2] The Leadville Railroad has operated as a tourist Railroad in Leadville Colorado since 1988. Their season starts on Memorial Day weekend and runs though the 1st of April. [3] [4]
Lake County Airport (IATA: LXV, ICAO: KLXV, FAA LID: LXV), also known as Leadville Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Leadville, a city in Lake County, Colorado, United States. [1] High-altitude tests performed for Bell 429 helicopter
Ute Trail became a wagon road in the 1860s providing transport to Leadville mining camp. [1] In 1872 the old wagon road through Ute Pass started at Rainbow Falls, or Ute Pass Falls. [7] The Colorado Midland Railway had tracks through the Ute Pass to Leadville and Aspen beginning in 1888. Service was later extended to Cripple Creek.
Leadville North is bordered to the south by the City of Leadville, the county seat.. U.S. Route 24 forms the eastern edge of the community. The highway leads north 31 miles (50 km) over the Continental Divide to Interstate 70 (I-70) at Minturn, and it runs south through Leadville 35 miles (56 km) to Buena Vista.