Museum: (Satellite)
Mine: (Satellite)
Looking South from Carr Ave.
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| Street View, Jul 2012 |
Looking East from 5th Street. The depot is on the left and the musuem building is on the right. The
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| Street View, Dec 2023 |
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| Michael Emerson Avitt posted April 7, 2015 - Cripple Creek, CO. |
The tourist railroad is the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad.
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| CrippleCreekRailroad The 4-mile ride takes 45 minutes. It "includes an interesting and educational narration on the rich history only a dynamic gold town could produce. Also stops for special points of interest, impressive photo spots, and Echo valley." |
Since Michael took his photo above, they subtracted a year from the age of the depot on the Gift Shop sign.
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| Sylvain Jaeckel, Dec 2025 |
Since they run just steam locomotives, I presume this water tower is operational.
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| B. Smith, Aug 2021 |
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| Tim Cleveland, Oct 2024 |
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| Photo, May 2025 |
South of the museum building is the shaft of an old gold mine. This photo was taken from the train soon after it left the depot.
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| Deb Pat Burk, Jul 2020 |
Note the two winches in the above photo peeking out to the left of the dirt pile. That must be part of this equipment exhibit. Note the donkey engine (small steam engine) on the right.
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| Chris Edward, Aug 2025 |
This side view shows a cable going from a winch to the lift hoist. There was probably a huge ore processing building to the right of the hoist into which those tracks extended. That way the ore cars could be dumped directly into the processing machinery.
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| Jan Lenaerts, Sep 2022 |
I presume these are centrifugal water pumps. Since underground mines not only go below the water table, but they also go through aquifers on their way done to ore veins. The problem of pumping water out of a mine was the inspiration for the development of steam engines in England. Underground mining was the enabling application for steam engines. That is, mines were willing to pay a lot for the development of steam engines that would keep deeper mines dry.
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| Jake Warkentin, Aug 2019 |
There seems to be a couple more shaft displays near the museum.
This one is wood instead of metal.
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| B K, Oct 2023 |
And this one has a building next to it. And there are no ore cars on the tracks.
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| Peter Burrie, Sep 2025 |
Is this a blast furnace remnant? It sure looks like it. They must have found a vein of iron ore. I wonder if there are also limestone and coal deposits in the area.
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| Sue, Aug 2025 |
This is a sampling of the displays inside the museum.
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| Neal P. Knight, Jul 2020 |
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| Heidi Loveland, Sep 2023 |
And, as the sign states, the depot is a gift shop.
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| Johnny Baldridge, Sep 2021 |
Because of the gold mines around Cripple Creek, two railroads crawled their way to that town. The Midland Terminal from the north and the Florence and Cripple Creek from the south.
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| 1901/01 Pikes Peak Quad @ 125,000 |
The tourist railroad uses the Terminal Midland RoW. CO-67 uses the F&CC RoW.
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| Digitally Zoomed |
It is not hard to spot a strip mine.
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| Satellite |
I see that gold mining is now similar to anthracite mining in Pennsylvania. Instead of mining underground, they just take the top off the mountain and then dig deep.
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| Peter Burrie, Sep 2025 |
"The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine (“CC&V”) (100% SSRM owned) is located approximately 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Denver, Colorado. Mining in the Cripple Creek district dates back to the 1890’s, with large-scale surface mining commencing in 1994. CC&V is an epithermal gold deposit associated with alkalic intrusive rocks mined via conventional open pit mining methods. All of the current Mineral Reserves are oxides, which are stacked on valley leach facilities as either run of mine (“ROM”) material or after a two-stage crush. SSR Mining completed the acquisition of CC&V on February 28, 2025." [ssrmining]
I just Googled "gold price today" [Nov 13, 2025].
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| Google results |
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