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Ouray, Colorado
Photo: John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ironton was a mining-camp junction on the Ouray side of Red Mountain Pass where the railroad and wagon roads met, with roughly a thousand residents at its peak. The 1893 silver crash and fading ore left only dozens by 1910, the post office closed in 1920, and the last resident died in the 1960s. A few buildings remain beside the Million Dollar Highway, and the Red Mountain Project has worked to stabilize them.
Short walk off US-550 into aspens; best in summer and fall, and Red Mountain Pass is slick in winter.
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