Alpine Loop
Carson Townsite, CO

The Carson Townsite was begun as a mining camp in 1882 and reached its peak in the 1890s. Today visitors can view mining relics and the cabins that the miners used. Over 400-500 miners worked in the nearby mountains to find their fortune in gold, but soon Mother Nature got the best of them. Carson stands at an elevation of almost 12,000 ft. on the Continental Divide, and the mountain weather was too much for the town to survive.