The Southern Teller County
Focus Group
Working Toward Positive Solutions
for Southeastern Teller County
What Is The Southern Teller
County Focus Group?
The Southern Teller County Focus Group is a Colorado 501
(c) 3 nonprofit organization with these purposes:
a) To develop and promote educational and recreational
opportunities in Southern Teller County.
b) To promote historic preservation in Southern Teller
County.
c) To assist mining operations in Southern Teller County
with post-mining reclamation options.
d) To foster open communications, to measure public sentiment,
and help develop consensus on community development in Southern Teller
County.
e) To promote the creation, expansion and maintenance
of walking trails, mountain biking trails and horseback trails in Southern
Teller County.
f) To encourage and promote historic, present and future
mining education and naturalist education in Southern Teller County.
The Focus Group works with
the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company and other private land
owners to develop positive solutions to historic preservation, recreation,
education and post-mining land use.
For information about the
Southern Teller County Focus
Group, write to POB 328, Victor, CO 80860
Email focusgroup@web-xpres.com
Donations and volunteers are
welcome and help
further the group's projects.
The Golden Loop Historic Parkway is located
in the Cripple Creek Mining District
on the southwest side of Pikes Peak.
|
Help Us Preserve our
1890’s Gold Mining Legacy!
The Golden Loop Historic Parkway
A Series of Interpretive Sites & Trails
Through the Cripple Creek Mining District:
*Vindicator Valley Including the Theresa &
Vindicator Mines - IN WINTER open for cross country skiing!
*Stratton’s Independence Mine, A National
Historic Register Site
*Battle Mountain Trail - a Millennium Trail
*The Gold Coin Mine, The Legacy That Built Victor
*Little Grouse Mtn Trail - A Natural Interpretive Site
*Independence Millsite Trail
*Golden Circle Trail
*Golden Loop Driving Tour Through Historic
Mining Backcountry Roads
*Gold Camp Trail - Interpreting the History of Poverty
Gulch
*Cresson Ore Sorting House - A Recreation of the Original
|