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  2. Fairplay, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of 9,953 feet (3,034 m). The town is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the State of Colorado. [8] Fairplay is now a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor .

  3. U.S. Route 285 in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Route description. US 285 southbound past its northern terminus at I-25/US 87 and SH 30 in Denver. Heading north from the Colorado border, US 285 passes through the main part of the San Luis Valley, eventually reaching Alamosa. As the highway heads north, it begins to ascend to the northern end of the valley and eventually climbs over Poncha ...

  4. Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad (later called the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway) was a historic 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow gauge railroad that operated in Colorado in the western United States in the late 19th century. The railroad opened up the first rail routes to a large section of the central Colorado mining district in the ...

  5. Park County, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    7th. Website. www .parkco .us. Park County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,390. [1] The county seat is Fairplay. [2] The county was named after the large geographic region known as South Park, which was named by early fur traders and trappers in the area.

  6. South Platte River - Wikipedia

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    The river is formed in Park County, Colorado, southwest of Denver in the South Park grassland basin by the confluence of the South Fork and Middle Fork, about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Fairplay. Both forks rise along the eastern flank of the Mosquito Range , on the western side of South Park, which is drained by the tributaries at the ...

  7. Colorado State Highway 9 - Wikipedia

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    Colorado State Highway 9. State Highway 9 ( SH 9) in the U.S. state of Colorado is a 138-mile-long (222 km) state highway through central Colorado. SH 9's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 50 (US 50) near Cañon City, and the northern terminus is at US 40 in Kremmling. SH 9 is part of the Gold Belt Byway from US 50 to High Park Road and the ...

  8. South Park City - Wikipedia

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    Main street with Morgue and Carpenter Shop. South Park City is an open-air museum located at the west end of Front Street in the town of Fairplay in Park County, Colorado. The museum is a historic reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and the later Colorado Silver Boom in South Park in the late 1850s through ...

  9. Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The most populous of the seven metropolitan statistical areas in Colorado is the 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 2,963,821 at the 2020 United States census, an increase of +15.29% since the 2010 census.