Bishop Castle is an elaborate and intricate one-man project named after its constructor, Jim Bishop, that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado.
Bishop bought the land for the site for $450 when he was 15, and construction on what was originally intended to be a family project to build a cottage started in 1969. After Bishop surrounded the cottage with rocks, several neighbors noted that the structure looked something like a castle. Bishop took this into consideration and soon began building his castle.
According to Roadside America, for most of the 40 years, he has worked on the castle Bishop was engaged in a running battle with Washington bureaucrats over the rocks that he used, which came from the National Forest surrounding his property. Bishop felt that they were his for the taking.
