Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum
Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 2,418 m. Castle Peak stands 4,352 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Marolt Open Space, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Top of the Rockies passes 26 miles off.
The story
The Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum is located on the former Holden Lixiviation Works facility on the western edge of the city of Aspen, Colorado, United States. It consists of two remaining buildings from the facility, as well as the relocated McMurchy/Zupancis domestic buildings. In 1990 the property was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the only district in the city to be so recognized. The museum is housed in the former sampling building, which was built in 1891 to process ore mined from the mountains around the city into silver through lixiviation. Within two years it had to be shut down when a change in U.S. government policy led to a huge drop in silver production and drove it into bankruptcy. The buildings remained standing and were eventually bought by a local rancher to expand. His family later sold them to the City of Aspen, which turned the property into an open space and leased the buildings to Aspen Historical Society, to operate as a museum.
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Dates from 2003.
Wikidata Q5879418, matched on coordinates and name (29 m apart).
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Seasonal
- Yes
How to reach it
- 25.6 mi off the Top of the Rockies, National
Overlooks nearby
- Crystal Lake Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shadow Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Red Butte: 1.2 mi
- Bell Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Red Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Aspen Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Bugsy Barnard Park: 0.2 mi
- Hillyard Park: 0.4 mi
- Waite/Robinson Park: 0.4 mi
- Pioneer Park: 0.5 mi
- Tot Lot Park: 0.6 mi
- Aspen Historical Society: 0.3 mi
- Wheeler/Stallard House Museum: 0.3 mi
- Marx • Phelan Building: 1.0 mi
- Aspen Art Museum: 1.0 mi
- Marble Museum: 20.9 mi
- Marolt Open Space: 0.1 mi
- Moore Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Aspen Center for Environmental Studies: 0.7 mi
- Sky Mountain Park: 4.5 mi
- North Mesa: 5.5 mi
- Maze: 0.3 mi
- Breathtaker: 5.4 mi
- Ashcroft Ghost Town: 9.7 mi
- Oliver's Cabin: 17.3 mi
- Crystal River Jeep Tours: 20.9 mi
- Lenado: 5.2 mi
- Ashcroft: 9.8 mi
- Independence: 13.7 mi
- Crystal: 17.0 mi
- Holy Cross City: 24.5 mi
- Lower Buttressess: 1.6 mi
- East Face: 1.6 mi
- Lower Grotto Wall: 8.8 mi
- Seven Castles: 15.1 mi
- Ryks Waterfall: 10.5 mi
- Devil’s Punch Bowl: 16.4 mi
- Judd Falls: 17.9 mi
- Hayes Creek Falls: 22.5 mi
- Conundrum Hot Springs: 12.9 mi
- Penny Hot Springs: 21.0 mi
- Penny Hot Springs: 21.2 mi
- Emerald Lake: 16.8 mi
- Emerald Lake: 23.2 mi
- Meadows Day Use Area: 24.3 mi
- Crystal Mill: 17.2 mi
- Redstone Coke Oven Historic District: 21.8 mi
- Pieplant Mill: 23.0 mi
- CBCS Community Garden: 23.9 mi
- The Peace Garden: 24.7 mi
- Community Garden: 24.8 mi
- Chromatic Gate: 0.5 mi
- Knight and Dragon: 23.9 mi
- Hot Spring: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Peak | S 186° | 4,352.2 m | 12.7 mi |
| Maroon Peak | SW 224° | 4,317 m | 11.8 mi |
| Capitol Peak | WSW 258° | 4,309 m | 13.6 mi |
| Snowmass Mountain | WSW 248° | 4,297.3 m | 13.4 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | SW 216° | 4,274.7 m | 10.4 mi |
| Conundrum Peak | S 187° | 4,271 m | 12.3 mi |
| North Maroon Peak | SW 225° | 4,261 m | 11.5 mi |
| Cathedral Peak | S 187° | 4,247 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:31 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:06 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 24 | 31 | 38 | 48 | 56 | 62 | 60 | 53 | 43 | 31 | 21 |
| Precip in | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Aspen 1SW, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1068055271
Day trips start here
- Aspen · 1 mi
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