Finding Gold in Colorado: Prospector's Edition: A guide to Colorado's casual gold prospecting, mining history and sightseeing

by Kevin Singel

Updated for 2024! Travel guidebook inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.) Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work. Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado. The Kindle edition of this book is exactly the same as the print edition. This Kindle version does not use Kindle’s active Table of Contents feature but there is a Table of Contents provided.

476 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2018