Kit Carson, Colorado: Kit Carson Observation Tower
Every town should have at least one.
- Address:
- US Hwy 40, Kit Carson, CO
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the north side of US Hwy 287/40, just east of Park St.
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Kit Carson Observation Tower It appears to be welded out of old rusty tools and metal objects. Just awesome.
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The 35-foot-tall "lighthouse" was built out of scrap metal in the 1950s by a retired submarine welder named Owen Moreland. It marked his property in the now-ghost-town of Aroya, before it was moved here.