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View of Pikes Peak from Woodland Park

World Famous Pikes Peak

Majestic Pikes Peak is in view throughout Teller County. You'll be amazed as the "Peak" changes its appearance from the rough, jagged south wall seen from Colorado Springs to a much softer version when viewed up close at 9,000 feet.

Keep an eye on the "Peak" throughout your visit and watch it change!

Teller County Activities

So Many Fun Things To Do

What better way to celebrate summer!

Colorado fly fishing on nearby gold medal streams is guaranteed to make it an exciting day.

Fly fishing for rainbow, cutthroat, brook, or brown trout is just one of over 50 exciting things to do outdoors!

Teller County Mule Deer

Teller County Wildlife Watching

Elk, mule deer, fox, hawks, eagles, coyotes, badgers, black bear, and other wildlife abound in Teller County.

Abundant public land encourages wildlife to share their space with you. Drive with care and always keep you camera ready!

Teller County Attractions

Fun & Historical Attractions

Take a ride on the train, go into a real gold mine, see a dinosaur, or touch a fossil.

Learn about history and western heritage when visiting our local museums. Schedule a tour or take in a show at the historic Butte Opera House. Spend a day, a week, or a month. You still may not see everything!

Cripple Creek Gaming

Cripple Creek Gaming

Cripple Creek Casinos offer slots, poker, blackjack, and more fun things to do. Cripple Creek has brought back a bit of the old time prospector in all of us.

Cripple Creek draws thousands of people each year due to its overall friendliness, historic venues, unique events, and of course gambling!

Restaurants & Dining

Restaurants & Dining

Excellent restaurants, great steak houses, fresh sandwiches, Mexican fajitas, Chinese kung pao chicken, Italian pizza and calzones, or home-made biscuits & gravy. Just a few ideas to satisfy your hunger.

Ready for a cup of locally roasted gourmet coffee?

Teller County Lodging

Lodging For Everyone!

Cabin rentals, bed and breakfasts, guest ranches, resorts, hotels, motels, RV parks, and public & private campgrounds assure everyone a great nights rest.

Check out the most current information and special deals then book your reservation today!

Teller County Shopping

Shopping Adventures

Spend a day shopping in Teller County and you may be starting a grand adventure.

Hard to find antiques, unique jewelry items, aspen and pine custom furniture, home-made fudge, fresh custom-roasted coffee beans, beautiful western wear, and much more is waiting for you.

Cripple Creek District Museum

Museums & Heritage

Go back in time inside the Cripple Creek District Museum or visit the new 11,600-square-foot Cripple Creek Heritage Center. Be sure to visit all of the museums to add to your historic knowledge.

The CC District Museum recently finished renovations of the parlour and dining room at the 1895 Midland Terminal Depot.

Teller County Communities

Communities Make A Difference

Teller County is made up of friendly, active people who keep our communities thriving.

Old-fashioned Fourth of July traditions, early childhood programs & senior activities, excellent schools, community outreach programs, and nearby, modern medical facilities often encourage visitors to become new residents!

Lowell Thomas, journalist, radio & television commentator, author, and film producer grew up in Victor, Colorado. Lowell Thomas got his start in journalism as editor of the Victor Daily Record newspaper. He moved to Victor with his family in September of 1900 at the age of 8.

He was the first news commentator to broadcast for both NBC & CBS. The Victor Lowell Thomas Museum houses memorabilia from his illustrious career. The Museum also houses artifacts from Victor?s past. The museum is open Memorial Day thru Labor Day and by appointment at other times. Call 719-689-5509 for hours and group tours.

Lowell Thomas


Who Was Lowell Thomas?

?So long until tomorrow....?
That closing statement was a familiar one for radio listeners until 1981. The golden voice of radio, Lowell Thomas, died in August of 1981, just two weeks after he had visited his boyhood town of Victor.

At the age of 8, in August of 1900, Thomas moved to Victor with his family. At the age of 10, dreams of becoming a newsboy began to circulate in his head and late that summer he joined the newsboy?s union - one of 35 members.

Hired on to work at the Victor Daily Record by owner George Kyner, Thomas folded and delivered the morning paper to the business and red light districts of Victor and Goldfield. In addition, Thomas took up delivering the Denver Post to saloons and gambling houses and made it to school in time each morning.

In 1911 he got his start in journalism as editor of the Victor Daily Record at age 19. Kyner hired him as the editor of the Victor Daily Record for $95 per month. Like many small town newspapers of the day, being editor meant being the one-and-only-man show at the paper. He covered prize fights, brawls, shootings and operas.

Thomas switched jobs in 1912 and took over editorship of the Victor News with a promise of more pay. After leaving for law school, Thomas was hired as a reporter for The Chicago Evening Journal.

In the Victor mining district, Lowell Thomas lived through the labor strikes, the tensions mounting over unions and non-union miners; and through the boom times in Victor when mines were producing millions of dollars of gold a year. He climbed Pikes Peak before age 14 and in 1916, he left Victor to attend college in Indiana (in two years he had a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree.) At age 24 he was a student and professor at Princeton, by then already well traveled. In March of 1925 he spoke for the first time on radio and in 1940, became the first television news broadcaster. He set many firsts, broadcasting first from underground in a mine, from places far and wide to which he ventured.

The challenges of the early day mining district fueled Thomas?s hunger for adventure and in 1949 he and his son were among the first Americans admitted to Tibet, the ?forbidden land.? Three books later he was off and running to other parts of the world.

He spent 46 years on radio doing NBC?s Literary Digest and from 1951 to 1955 he made the first three Cinerama (three-dimensional) movies. From 1957 to 1959 Thomas was on the television set acting out his series High Adventure produced by his son, Lowell, Jr .

In 1976 President Gerald Ford presented Thomas with the Medal of Freedom and on April 30,1976 Thomas told the world, from Victor, that he would retire from broadcasting on May 14 of that year.

He paid a visit to Victor and posed with his son, Lowell Thomas Jr, and Ralph Carr, one-time Colorado governor, in front of the vacant Record building.

His last visit to his boyhood home of Victor on August 13, 1981. Less than two weeks later he died, August 29, at his estate in New York. He was 89 years old when he died. Thomas left a legacy for all journalists.

His first work place as a journalist, The Victor Record building, still stands on south Fourth St. The Lowell Thomas Museum houses memorabilia from his illustrious career. The Museum also houses artifacts from Victor?s past.

 

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