Fourmile Canyon
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Fourmile Canyon or Four Mile Canyon is a mountainous canyon in western Boulder County, Colorado that channels a stream known as Fourmile Creek or Four Mile Creek.. The stream rises at on the southern
The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn on September 7, 2010, visible from NASA's Aqua satellite.
Switzerland Trail
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The Switzerland Trail is the site of a historic 3 ft narrow gauge railroad line that was operated at different times by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railway, the Colorado and Northwestern Railro
Fourmile Canyon
…narrow-gauge railroad to connect Union Pacific's standard-gauge network to the mines and mountain communities near Ward, and was the entryway to the Switzerland Trail tourist route that wound through the mountains between Nederland and Ward. The Fourmile narrow gauge track was active from the 1880s until 1919. An…
View of the railroads that became the Switzerland Trail, by William Henry Jackson, 1900. This copy has annotations identifying the railroads and the town of Sunset, Colorado (at right center).
Sunset, Colorado townsite. This house appeared to be the only occupied dwelling in 2010.
Switzerland Trail above Sunset townsite. Note the well-preserved rockwork on the old railroad embankment. 2010 photo by Don O'Brien.