24 Sept 2011

Ward & Jamestown

Another great sunset Friday night



Saturday afternoon we went up to the historic mining towns of Ward and Jamestown



Ward is at 9,450' and about 35 minutes west of Boulder up Left Hand Canyon Road, a rather wooded drive and a good opportunity to see early fall foliage





Ward is hard to describe. Wikipedia has a simple synopsis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward,_Colorado

We actually did mail ourselves a post card in case they do close their post office:
http://sites.google.com/site/wardcolorado/

This person does not like Ward:
http://ward-colorado.20megsfree.com/index.html

The show "American Pickers" should come to Ward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pickers











Our opinion is Ward is to Colorado what Port Renfrew is to Vancouver Island (also the only two places we've seen squatters)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Renfrew

After popping in the cute General Store we headed to Jamestown
http://www.jamestownco.org/

Jamestown was much different - it felt more like a small Vermont village







Town cemetery



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