By Virginia McConnell Simmons When snow and cabin fever piled up, miners might schuss over to Pitkin for a drink while awaiting spring and another chance to strike it rich at last. After all, a disgusted prospector whacked his hammer into a rock and broke off a tangle of pure silver wire from a boulder …
by Ericka Kastner Lovers of four-wheeling, hikes above treeline and ridiculous views of the Continental Divide should put this adventure on their to-do list. The highest fire tower in North America sits on Fairview Peak at 13,214 feet in elevation, just north of the town of Pitkin. This one-room stone hut, constructed in 1912 (just …
by Nancy Best Growning up in Pitkin during the Depression and working closely with her woodcutter dad in the woods since she was a small child, Adelina Taylor was a woman with many stories to tell. Some of those stories she told in Colorado Central Magazine. She loved reading the magazine, too, even being called …