Visitors' Center (Colorado & Southern Depot)

Visitors' Center (Colorado & Southern Depot)

Visitors' Center (Colorado & Southern Depot) Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1910. 112 E. 4th St.

The restored Colorado & Southern depot, across Main Street (U.S. 160) from the courthouse and next to still-used tracks, is a bungaloid station building of wire-cut red brick with crisp white frame trim and a multigabled green tile roof. Inside, the original ticket window and waiting room survive, recycled to provide tourists with literature and guidance. A side room houses the Colorado Barbed Wire Collectors Museum, displaying several hundred different styles of the fencing that made farming and ranching possible on the treeless Great Plains.

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