Road to Fairplay!

A road trip! I gather my things and head out to Fairplay, Colorado from my home. I live in a little town called Guffey, which is EXTREME South Park, yes THAT South Park....so all of my county business is conducted in Fairplay, the county seat of Park County.

You have to be careful on the road to Fairplay, I take Hwy 9 to Hartsel, jump on Hwy 24 til just through Hartsel then back on to Hwy 9 N through the Badger Basin. There are several hundred Buffalo roaming in the big valleys throughout the South Park pastures. On this day I was lucky enough to catch a couple of pics of them browsing in the snow. They are truly magnificent creatures! But drive carefully, there have been many times when they break out of their huge pastures and hang around on the road. You have to stay sharp driving through the South Park! The views are breathtaking, one of the reasons I live here!

Here are the Park County Offices, right on the main drag. Oh! Do NOT speed through town! They will get you! They ARE watching! :)

Park County offices have always been extremely helpful when going in to either the Clerks office or the Assessors office. It is small enough that they have not lost their personableness and I hope they never do.

Heres a shot of the Historic Fairplay Hotel! Its right across the street from

the Park County Offices. I have several interior shots of this beautiful Historic Gem, lovingly restored by the current owners David and Anna. I will have to put those up on their own blog, as they deserve to be showcased!

This next beautiful building sits in the middle of the town park, just N of the Fairplay Hotel. I think it is the library, but I have to double check that info! Its very cool and I believe they finished restoration not too long ago, as in last summer. Oh well, that means another trip to Fairplay!

Next, I took a drive down Front Street, which is one block to the West of the main drag. There are several small shops along this street. Not much was open, so I just snapped some pics of interesting stuffl. I love the Chocolate Moose sign. Bet you can get chocolote covered moose poop in there. At the end of the street is South Park City; a completely restored town that was moved to Fairplay for show & tell! It is open in the summer for you to wander through and experience the life of the bygone days! There is a great little museum gift shop here also.

First News From Cripple Creek, Colorado!

Hello and Welcome to My Very First Blog! Well, thats not really true....I do have some test blogs out on the internet but this is my very first one of my very own creation! I am excited and anxious to get started!

My name is Carrie Miller, and I own a Real Estate Brokerage in Cripple Creek, Colorado, home of the Worlds Greatest Gold Camp!

Travel with me as I take you through the streets of Cripple Creek, Colorado, where I work and play and have lived for almost 20 years. The photo to the left is of my office on Bennett Avenue, Gold Country Realty, in the Historic May Block, recently rennovated back to usefulness! This building once housed a bakery and boarding rooms, then an attorney in the 1970's then a carpenter, and now me and my crew, which I will introduce to you in the future! Right now I wish to just introduce myself and my Blog!

The photo to the right is me, a couple of years ago, and my good horse, Luke. He and I travel many a trail through the high country near Cripple Creek and even ride through downtown on occasion. This is my love, to ride and enjoy the company of a good horse, the breathtaking views available out there and the quiet and challenge of negotiating trails! I will talk about that in my blogs also!

I have lots of photos of Cripple Creek. I tried to post one here but ran into what we call operator error..... We can often stand in the middle of the street and take photos without getting run over. Cripple Creek has a small population of around 1200 people, but all of that demographic information you can get off of my website, which I will link to once I figure that out. Heck, 3 cars at a stopsign causes a traffic jam around here! Everyone waits for the other person to go first, and out in the country its even more interesting! Believe it or not, this town had at one time, more than 50,000 residents!

We have some great events, I love living up here, and this is a great place to come visit, live and raise kids, or vacate and recreate! We have limited stakes gambling in several casinos, great mine history, several super museums, a herd of donkeys that wander through town to feed, pet and take pictures with and several great hiking trails and biking trails as well as horseback riding, fishing and more!

Weekends are full of fun activities like gravity races, Ice carving festivals, Chile Cookoffs, Donkey Derby Days, parades, Veterans Appreciation activities, museum visits, Melodrama, Victorian Dress Ups and Strolls, Gunfights, Cemetary Visits and so much to do and so little time!

I encourage you to check it out! You can go to goldcountryco.com and check out the links to historic hotels, casino action, museum action and available real estate too. The LINKS are at the lower right hand corner of that page. Or you can certainly email me at carrie@goldcountryco.com with any questions, I will help you the best that I can!

My intent is to keep these blogs short and interesting, so for now I am going to say Happy Trails, check back often, and I hope to see you out there in the big wide open country someday soon enjoying life!

Carrie