Kit Carson, Colorado: Kit Carson Observation Tower
Ornate metal structure. Every town should have at least one.
Kit Carson Museum
- Address:
- US Hwy 40, Kit Carson, CO
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the north side of US Hwy 287/40, just east of Park St. Behind a fence, but visible from the street.
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This is inside the fence to the Kit Carson museum. Visible from Main Street. It appears you can only access it from the museum.
[Mandy, 12/06/2019]
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.