The Colorado Gold Rush

Learn about the Colorado Gold Rush in this GPS guided audio tour app that will take you to 15 locations with 22 minutes of audio along a 2.8-mile route. Bike it, walk it, drive it, or simply see it from your phone at home!

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Prospectors fanned out across the West in an intensive search for gold; entering the areas they felt most likely to contain the richest veins. In 1858, a minor found a small amount of gold at Dry Creek south of the present-day site of Denver. The news of this discovery brought forth an influx of gold-panning prospectors, many of whom had also followed the 1848, California gold rush.

In 1859, when three large lode claims were made in what would later become Central City, Black Hawk, and Mountain City, people from across the United States were lured to the region by the promise of gold! Thus, the beginning of the BOOM towns of Central City, Black Hawk, and Mountain City Colorado! Let's take a step back in time!