History Hike: Independence
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History Hike: Independence
Saturday, June 17 | 9 am– 12 pm | Meets at the Independence Ghost Town upper parking lot (16 miles east of Aspen on Highway 82)
Advance reservations required at aspenhistory.org, limit 16 hikers
$15/Free for AHS Lixiviator level and above members
Please dress appropriately as the tour will go rain or shine
Explore the first mining site in the Roaring Fork Valley where, legend has it, prospectors struck gold on July 4, 1879. This moderate hike descends the ghost town trail including stops at remnant cabins, the “general store” and the Farwell Mill site.