List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado

This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado. A list of National Park Service administered areas in Colorado that have a historic focus is also included. There are 25 National Historic Landmark sites in Colorado.

National Historic Landmarks in Colorado

	Landmark name	Image	Date designated	Location	County	Description
1	Bent's Old Fort		December 19, 1960 (#66000254)	La Junta	Otero	Adobe fort built in 1833 to trade with Plains Indians and trappers, on Santa Fe Trail
2	Central City/Black Hawk Historic District		July 4, 1961 (#66000246)	Central City and Black Hawk	Gilpin	Former gold mining camps in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, once known as the 'Richest Square Mile on Earth
3	Colorado Chautauqua		February 10, 2006 (#78000830)	Boulder	Boulder	This 1898 Chautauqua is the only one West of the Mississippi, one of only four continuously operating since its inception, and the only one open year round.
4	Cripple Creek Historic District		July 4, 1961 (#66000939)	Cripple Creek	Teller	The gold mining town of Cripple Creek and the surrounding hills
5	Denver & Rio Grande Railroad San Juan Extension(Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad)		October 16, 2012 (#73000462)	Antonito, CO and Chama, NM	Archuleta, CO, Conejos, CO, and Rio Arriba, NM	Longest & most complete representation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century railroading.
6	Denver Civic Center		October 16, 2012 (#12001017)	Denver	Denver	City Beautiful-era civic center.
7	Durango-Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad		July 4, 1961 (#66000247)	Durango to Silverton	San Juan and La Plata	Narrow gauge mining railroad which has continued to serve as a tourist line between Durango and Silverton
8	Georgetown-Silver Plume Historic District		November 13, 1966 (#66000243)	Georgetown and Silver Plume	Clear Creek	Historic district which includes the silver mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume as well as the 1884 railway engineering marvel which connects them, the Georgetown Loop Railroad.
9	Granada Relocation Center		February 10, 2006 (#94000425)	Granada	Prowers	World War II Japanese American internment center
10	Leadville Historic District		July 4, 1961 (#66000248)	Leadville	Lake	Historic Leadville, Colorado mining district and village area
11	Lindenmeier Site		January 20, 1961 (#66000249)	Norfolk	Larimer	The only extensive Folsom culture campsite yet found with artifacts dating from approximately 11200 BCE to 3000 BCE.
12	Lowry Ruin	Lowry Ruin	July 19, 1964 (#66000253)	Pleasant View	Montezuma	Ancient Pueblo Peoples archaeological site from 1060 with a very large kiva
13	Ludlow Tent Colony Site		January 16, 2009 (#85001328)	Ludlow	Las Animas	Site of 1914 miners' strike that culminated in Ludlow Massacre
14	Mesa Verde Administrative District		May 29, 1987 (#87001410)	Mesa Verde National Park	Montezuma	First buildings built by the National Park Service with intent to reflect cultural traditions in the park area, built in 1921
15	Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel No. 6		February 27, 1987 (#78000861)	Burlington	Kit Carson	Carousel built for Elitch Gardens in 1905. In 1928 it moved to Kit Carson County fairgrounds where it remains open today. It is the only antique carousel in America retaining its original paint on both the scenery panels and the animals, and it is the only surviving Philadelphia Toboggan Company menagerie carousel.
16	Pikes Peak		July 4, 1961 (#66000245)	Colorado Springs	El Paso	Pike's Peak (everything above 14,000 feet (4,300 m) elevation). This mountain was inspiration for "America the Beautiful" as well as the motto "Pike's Peak or Bust"
17	Pike's Stockade		July 4, 1961 (#66000244)	Sanford	Conejos	Explorer Zebulon Pike set up a fort here.
18	Raton Pass		December 19, 1960 (#66000474)	Trinidad, CO and Raton, NM	Las Animas, CO and Colfax, NM	Mountain pass between New Mexico and Colorado
19	Red Rocks Park and Mount Morrison Civilian Conservation Corps Camp		August 4, 2015 (#90000725)	Morrison, CO	Jefferson	Denver Mountain Park and camp where workers stayed while building the park's amphitheater.
20	Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building		January 3, 2001 (#01000069)	Estes Park	Larimer	Also known as the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, it was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, their first major work after Frank Lloyd Wright had died. It demonstrated modern architecture could be successful inside the National Parks and was the last significant project in Mission 66.
21	Shenandoah-Dives (Mayflower) Mill		February 16, 2000 (#00000262)	Silverton	San Juan	Only surviving example of a selective flotation mill in Colorado.
22	Silverton Historic District		July 4, 1961 (#66000255)	Silverton	San Juan	Former silver mining town, home of the Shenandoah-Dives (Mayflower) Mill and one end of the Durango-Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad
23	Telluride Historic District		July 4, 1961 (#66000256)	Telluride	San Miguel	Former gold mining boomtown, it is now an artistic retreat and a ski resort town
24	Trujillo Homestead		February 1, 2012 (#03001544)	Mosca	Alamosa	Early ranch settlement (1880s) in the San Luis Valley, with a surviving period ranch house; located on a Nature Conservancy property near Great Sand Dunes National Park.
25	United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area	United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area	April 1, 2004 (#04000484)	Colorado Springs	El Paso	Bold use of Modern architecture at the United States Air Force Academy, especially with the Cadet Chapel

Historic areas of the NPS in Colorado

National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are four of these in Colorado. The National Park Service lists these four together with the NHLs in the state,

Bent's Old Fort is a National Historic Site as well as a National Historic Landmark. The others are:

	Landmark name	Image	Date established	Location	County	Description
1	Hovenweep National Monument		March 2, 1923	Cortez, CO and Blanding, UT	Montezuma,CO and San Juan,UT	Six clusters of Native American ruins; shared with Utah
2	Mesa Verde National Park		June 29, 1906	Cortez	Montezuma	Numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the ancient Pueblo people; known for cliff dwellings; Mesa Verde translates into English as "green table"
3	Yucca House National Monument		December 19, 1919	Cortez	Montezuma	Unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site

See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in Colorado
• List of National Historic Landmarks by state
• Wikimedia Commons: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado

External links

• National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service