Finding Gold in Colorado: A guide to Colorado's casual gold prospecting, mining history and sightseeing

Updated for 2022! Colorado Prospectors, this is the book for you - loaded with over 180 public access prospecting sites! A travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.) Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Author: Laura a. Hoeppner, Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/26/2018
Pages: 476
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d
ISBN13: 9781719553469
ISBN10: 1719553467
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States | West | Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT,

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