Peak to Peak
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
The Great Divide
Pleasure on the Peak
Exploring on Your Own
Further Down the Road
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
The Chinese in the West
Building the Moffat Tunnel
Tuberculosis/Growth of Colorado
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
Peak to Peak Timeline
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide
Longs Peak in distance, Colorado
Longs Peak, 1873
Courtesy, Library of Congress


Peak to Peak

Exploring on Your Own

Exploring on Your Own
  • Women in the mining camps
  • What one would find in a mercantile store
  • F. O. Stanley’s inventions
  • Federal land in Colorado
Stanley hotel in process of construction
Stanley Hotel under construction
Courtesy, Stanley Museum

HIGHLIGHTS

Group of men in Stanley Steamer
Stanley Steamer
Courtesy, Estes Park Historical Museum

Tourists in a Stanley Steamer enjoy a ride on what will become the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway.


Oliver Mill with people, horse and wagon
Oliver Mill
Courtesy, Denver Public Library, Western History Department, X-61769

The two great industries of Colorado are mining and tourism.
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