History of Towns We Visited in Colorado
We traveled by shuttle van to Climax, Colorado to test our skills at snowmobiling. Climax was an unincorporated mining village and a former U.S. Post Office located in Lake County, Colorado. Climax was known for its large molybdenum ore deposit. The former Climax Post Office had the ZIP Code 80429. Climax is now an uninhabited ghost town, located along the Continental Divide at an elevation of about 11,360 feet (3465 meters). It was the highest human settlement in the United States, and it holds the record for having had the country’s highest Post Office and the highest railroad station. The residential houses were all transported to the West Park subdivision of Leadville, Colorado, before 1965, leaving only the mining buildings standing.
Leadville, Colorado is where the Unsinkable Molly Brown and her husband made their fortune. They were very wealthy. Molly’s husband divorced her for a younger woman and Molly took to traveling the world. She survived her voyage on the Titanic.
I remember seeing the Unsinkable Molly Brown, with Debbie Reynolds, as a kid. I saw it over and over. In the movie, it says nothing about Mr. Brown leaving her for a younger woman. What a jerk!
Visiting a ghost town sounds like so much fun! Me, I’ve never been west of Pittsburgh. :-p
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An interesting topic. I thought there are not many survivors on the Titanic. Sounds like a really good historical state.