Must-see attractions in Breckenridge

  • Barney Ford Museum

    Breckenridge

    Barney Ford was an escaped slave who became a prominent entrepreneur and Colorado civil-rights pioneer, and made two stops in Breckenridge (where he ran a…

  • Edwin Carter Discovery Center

    Breckenridge

    This award-winning museum sheds light on a pioneer lured west by the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush in 1858. He reached the Blue River valley in 1860. An original…

  • Boreas Pass

    Breckenridge

    Originally known as Breckenridge Pass (11,481ft), this road first began serving stagecoaches in 1866 when prospectors flooded into the area from South…

  • Breckenridge Arts District

    Breckenridge

    This block-long stretch of historic Breckenridge is where you’ll find a burgeoning arts scene. It has a live-work art space for visiting artists, a…

  • Lomax Placer Mine

    Breckenridge

    Here’s a chance to pan for gold, learn how old-mining-town chemists assayed the valuable claims and check out the actual sluices and flumes used in placer…

  • High Line Railroad Park

    Breckenridge

    This isn't much of a park, but it is notable for its display of a vintage narrow-gauge rotary plow and the locomotives that powered it up the famed,…

  • Blue River Plaza

    Breckenridge

    A beautifully landscaped riverside plaza with ample seating looking out onto the numbered peaks. There is sculpture, a 19th-century wagon, a small toddler…

  • Summit Ski Museum

    Breckenridge

    This small museum celebrates the first ski town in Colorado – that would be Breck – and the first century of Summit County skiing. There's a documentary…