The Southern Teller County Focus Group
Invites You to The Golden Loop Historic Parkway
Trails, Historic Sites, Driving Tours
Featuring Gold Rush History Near Victor, Colorado

More About What We Do...

Working Toward Positive Solutions for Southern Teller County

 What Is The Southern Teller County Focus Group?
The Southern Teller County Focus Group is a Colorado 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization with these purposes:

  a) To develop and promote educational and recreational
opportunities in Southern Teller County.
  b) To promote historic preservation in Southern Teller County.
  c) To assist mining operations in Southern Teller County with
post-mining reclamation options.
  d) To foster open communications, to measure public sentiment, and help develop consensus on community development in Southern Teller County.
  e) To promote the creation, expansion and maintenance of walking trails, mountain biking trails and horseback trails in Southern Teller County.
  f) To encourage and promote historic, present and future mining
education and naturalist education in Southern Teller County.
The Focus Group works with the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company and other private land owners to develop positive solutions to historic preservation, recreation, education and post-mining land use.

For information about the Southern Teller County Focus Group, write to POB 328, Victor, CO 80860
Email focusgroup@web-xpres.com

Donations and volunteers are welcome and help  further the group's projects.

The Golden Loop Historic Parkway is located in the Cripple Creek Mining District on the southwest side of Pikes Peak.

As Seen on Colorado GetAways...Recipient of a 2001 Colorado Mine Reclamation Award & State Honor Award for Historic Preservation...
A Series of Interpretive Sites & Trails Through the Cripple Creek Mining District:
*Vindicator Valley Including the Theresa & Vindicator Mines - IN WINTER open for cross country skiing!
*Stratton’s Independence Mine, A National Historic Register Site
*Battle Mountain Trail - a Millennium Trail
*Independence Mill Site Trail
*Golden Circle Trail
*The Gold Coin Mine, The Legacy That Built Victor
*Little Grouse Mtn. Trail - A Natural Interpretive Site
*Golden Loop Driving Tour Through Historic Mining Backcountry Roads
*Gold Camp Trail - Interpreting the History of Poverty Gulch
*Cresson Ore Sorting House - A Recreation of the Original

*Don't Miss the American Eagles Scenic Overlook & The Victor Lowell Thomas Museum

*On the Gold Belt National Scenic Byway