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Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway
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Are you interested in joining the businesses and organizations along the Gold Belt Byway that are making a difference? Joining the Gold Belt Byway is an extraordinary opportunity for you to become an integral part of preserving and enhancing this national scenic treasure for current and future generations to come.
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Ancient Lake Florissant
About 34 million years ago, volcanic mudflows dammed a stream and created ancient Lake Florissant, which stretched 1.5 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers long. The lake existed for an estimated 2,500 to 5,000 years, accumulating the sediments that preserved thousands of fossils.
Gold in the Hotel Foundation
In March 1894, the Woods brothers were digging a foundation for the Victor Hotel when they struck a 20-inch-wide vein of gold ore. They abandoned their hotel plans and built the Gold Coin Mine instead, which eventually produced over $6 million in gold with tunnels running beneath Victor's streets.