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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Winter Park

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Winter Park, Colorado

Updated July 1, 2019

Unusual Attractions in Winter Park

Winter Park, Colorado

Devil's Slide Trestles

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Winter Park, Colorado

Rifle Sight Notch

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

Winter Park, Colorado

Rollins Pass Game Traps

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

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Knights of Pythias Cemetery

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

13 miles from Winter Park

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Nevadaville Ghost Town

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

14 miles from Winter Park

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Frozen Dead Guy Days

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

14 miles from Winter Park

Nederland, Colorado

Nederland Mining Museum

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

14 miles from Winter Park

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