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Fairplay is a statutory town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. [1] [7] The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census. [4] Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of 9,953 feet (3,034 m).
South Park City is an open-air museum located at the west end of Front Street in the town of Fairplay in Park County, Colorado. The museum is a historic reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and the later Colorado Silver Boom in South Park in the late 1850s through the 1880s.
The town of Fairplay was founded as a more law-abiding place to live than the older, nearby town of Tarryall during this time and continued to be a center of gold, and later silver mining up through the middle 20th century. South Park City, an open-air museum outside Fairplay, provides a historical recreation of the gold rush days.
Park County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,390. [2] The county seat is Fairplay. [3] The county was named after the large geographic region known as South Park, which was named by early fur traders and trappers in the area.
[a] [5] [6] The City of Black Hawk with a 2020 population of 127 is the least populous Colorado city, while the Town of Castle Rock with a 2020 population of 73,158 is the most populous Colorado town. [1] [5] At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) lived in one of the 271 municipalities active at ...
The City of Leadville, Colorado has been the highest elevation incorporated city in the United States since its incorporation on February 18, 1878. The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m).
A few miles north, the highway passes through Fairplay and the historic South Park City site, then reaches its highest elevation: 10,051 feet (3,064 m), at the summit of Red Hill Pass. US 285 then leaves the South Park basin and climbs over Kenosha Pass , elevation 10,001 feet (3,048 m), and skirts the south side of the Mount Evans massif as it ...
Tabor's store, previously located in the Buckskin Joe movie set and theme park near Cañon City, Colorado and later sold to a private collector. The placer and vein gold deposits were rich, but were quickly exhausted. By 1866, the town was reported to be deserted, and the courthouse building was moved down the valley to the new county seat of ...