Alice - Colorado Ghost Town

ALICE

NAME: Alice
COUNTY: Gilpin
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Cold winter with snow, cool summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Near Central City.
REMAINS: Many original buildings.

Gold was found here in the 1880's just below St. Mary's glacier. Alice was one of many camps on the Fall River that boomed and died just as quickly. About $50,000 was taken out of the mines in the first few months and by 1889, the town and mines closed. There are still ruins of the cabins scattered among the pines and the area is one of the few where there is enough snow to permit year round skiing. There has been a little activity in the area since the late 1890's, but not much.	School - 1905 Courtesy Dolores Steele Alice Courtesy Dolores Steele Cabin across from the school Courtesy Dolores Steele Alice Courtesy Dolores Steele

Gold was found here in the 1880's just below St. Mary's glacier. Alice was one of many camps on the Fall River that boomed and died just as quickly. About $50,000 was taken out of the mines in the first few months and by 1889, the town and mines closed. There are still ruins of the cabins scattered among the pines and the area is one of the few where there is enough snow to permit year round skiing. There has been a little activity in the area since the late 1890's, but not much.

School - 1905
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Alice
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Cabin across from the school
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Alice
Courtesy Dolores Steele

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