{"id":2491,"date":"2013-08-11T22:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T03:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2013-09-11T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T02:50:03","slug":"colorado-discoveries-9-cripple-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/08\/colorado-discoveries-9-cripple-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discoveries 9: Cripple Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family took a leisurely drive in the Mustang with the top down. We didn’t set a location precisely, but ended up in Cripple Creek, Colorado, a very quiet little mining town that’s filled with casinos.<\/p>\n

There’s a tourist railroad in Cripple Creek, called the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad. Trains leave every 40 minutes and take tourists on a 45 minute ride. We didn’t plan to stay long enough for a train ride, but we enjoyed looking around at the depot.<\/p>\n

You know what else is cool, the railroad is pet friendly! When we come back to ride it we fully intend to bring Howie!<\/p>\n

Otherwise, Cripple Creek has numerous small casinos and little else. The state voted to allow gambling in Cripple Creek in 1991. The town is tiny. It was tough to find a place for lunch in the area…most of the restaurants are in the casinos. But we did find a burger joint on called The Creek<\/a>\u00a0on Bennett Avenue (the main drag), that was pretty good. Dave had an elk burger which he testified was pretty darned good.<\/p>\n

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The kids have mixed feelings about having the top down. So long as we aren’t going too fast, they really enjoy it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Timmy wanted to be in one of my photos of the scenery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pretty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I had my Elevation app running for real-time information. I love this app! I had no signal to show map information, but the GPS is reliable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Cripple Creek and Victor Railroad depot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bennett Avenue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Most of these properties are empty, sadly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A drive to Cripple Creek, CO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,386,416,418,417],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-discoveries","tag-cripple-creek","tag-cripple-creek-and-victor-narrow-gauge-railroad","tag-the-creek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t