Places timmy3p Wants to Go

A monument at the site of the Towner School Bus Tragedy, which lead to changes in school bus safety.

The site of a minor battle might have been forgotten if not for one participant’s famous family and the death of a respected warrior.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

The temporary burial site of the man who shot and killed Jesse James.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.