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Tour Time

This summer our Time Travel Tuesdays have a twist: they’re tours. It’s like field-trips for adults. We’ll be hosting seven weeks of tours, every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. They’ll take […]

History Mystery: By the Yard

  Where in Aspen is this? Does that house look familiar? We get donations all the time of old photographs that need identification, including people and place. Our archives team […]

New Historic Bike Tour

WE-cycle has bikes and we’ve got history. It’s the perfect  recipe for a  historic bike tour. We’ve partnered with Aspen’s bike-sharing system to offer a unique tour once a week. The pleasant […]

Ghost Towns Open this Weekend for Summer

Did you know that Ashcroft was once more populated than Aspen and home to more than 2,000 people? There were two newspapers, a smelter, a school and 20 saloons. But, […]

Mining History by Jeep

You may know about the Smuggler Mine, but did you know there are even more silver mines above that? The remnants of several of them can be found beyond the observation deck […]