The Ute-Ulay Mine and Mill is a representative large-scale silver and lead mining and milling complex which was one of the most productive in the Lake City area.

The Torpedo Bomber M (TBM) Avenger Aircraft N53503 is a World War II single engine torpedo bomber in flying condition.  The military aircraft was manufactured by General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft division in 1945, and accepted for service by the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance later that same year. 

A cross gabled bell tower tops the roof of this wood frame rural schoolhouse.  The building’s current one-story configuration dates from 1912.

Constructed in 1903, the Valley View School is a good representation of the common rural schoolhouses that once dotted the state.  The simple school building served as the educational and community center for the local ranching families just west of Salida.

Since 1899 Beecher Island Battleground has served as the venue of annual battle commemorations.

Serving as Vernon’s only high school from 1927 until 1959, Vernon School was the town’s only grade school from 1939 until 1969. 

The 27,861-acre Tarryall Rural Historic District extends approximately 39.4 miles along the Tarryall Road from just south of Jefferson to U.S. Highway 24 northwest of the small community of Lake George. Since pioneer development of the wagon road in 1862 and the beginning of permanent settlement in the mid-1860s, inhabitants have left their stamp on the continuously evolving landscape in subtle and dramatic ways.

The South Platte River Bridge is an intact reminder of the historic highway route (variously designated State Highway 8, State Highway 4, U.S. Highway 40 South, and U.S. Highway 24) between Colorado Springs and southern Park County, which was an important transportation corridor long before Euro-American settlement.

The Rock Island Snow Plow No. 95580 sits on rails it originally cleared in the 1950s-’80s within the environs of the Limon Heritage Museum, which includes the National Register-listed Limon Railroad Depot.

From 1884-1897, the Johnson Stage Station served stage freight traffic to and from the mining regions of Lake City and the Gunnison Gold Belt as part of a road network that funneled goods and machinery for distribution to regional mines and settlements. Ore and mill products flowed in reverse, to the railroad for shipment to smelters in Denver and Cañon City.