FOOD & DRINK
Pair create business from love of tasting whiskey Page 4
CULTURE
ARTS
Mountain Adventure creates unique day on the slopes Page 8
MUSIC
Glass gallery adds color, creativity to Main Street Page 15
‘Dead Guy’ festival showcases local musicians Page 19
SILVER PLUME • GEORGETOWN • EMPIRE • IDAHO SPRINGS • CENTRAL CITY • BLACK HAWK • GOLDEN GATE • ROLLINSVILLE • COAL CREEK • NEDERLAND • GOLD HILL • WARD • JAMESTOWN • ALLENSPARK • LYONS • ESTES PARK
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For Winter Riding Fun
COVER STORY: Like other winter sports and trends, residents of Colorado— consistently ranked as being among the healthiest and most active in the country—have been quick to adopt fat bikes as a new form of winter recreation. The bikes, which allow for year-round cycling and backcountry enjoyment in winter, are now routinely found on multi-use forest trails throughout the state, including the Front Range. Page 14 Photo courtesy of YMCA Of The Rockies Snow Mountain Ranch
Historic Places Dumont and Empire in Clear Creek County Dumont School
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Location: 150 County Rd. 260 Date Listed: National Register, March 1, 1996
Mill City House
Location: 247 County Rd. 308 Date Listed: National Register, April 30, 2009
Mint Saloon
Location: 13 E. Park Ave. (U.S. 40), Empire Date Listed: National Register, February 3, 1993
Peck House
Location: 83 Sunny Ave., Empire Date Listed: National Register, March 25, 1993
Dumont, Empire historic places unique to region PEAK TO PEAK Colorado’s rich history is being preserved through the efforts of locally- and nationally-designated historic places. Each month this year, the MMAC Monthly takes a region-by-region look at the many properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the mountain communities in Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder and Larimer counties. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. For a property to be eli-
gible, it must meet at least one of four main criteria involving architectural styles, association with various aspects of social history and commerce, ownership and design/ construction. While Clear Creek County’s larger towns in are home to many of its nationally recognized historic places, the smaller communities of Empire and Dumont have a few, too. When all of the good land around Idaho Springs was all claimed, miners from Central City moved into the Empire area. Continued on page 12
Mill City House in Dumont as it looked in the 1940s.
Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library