Cripple Creek, Colorado: Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour
Get lowered in a cage 1,000 feet beneath the surface for a one-hour subterranean tour. Everyone gets a free rock with gold in it. Tour guide elevator death in Oct. 2024 ruled "operator error."
- Address:
- 9388 Hwy 67, Cripple Creek, CO
- Directions:
- From downtown Cripple Creek drive east on Hwy 67 for two miles. The mine will be on the right.
- Hours:
- Seasonal: open April-Oct. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 719-689-2466
- Admission:
- Adults $18.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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I've been on several mine tours throughout the country and by far this was the best. It starts with a 1000 foot elevator ride down into the mountain where you then experience what it was like to be working in a mine. The tour guide actually demonstrates several different tools that were used in the mine. You also get to take a short train ride down in the mine. The entire tour lasted about one hour.
[Matt Ritzler, 11/29/2024]
When the mine went into operation in the late 1800s, it produced gold for its owner, Mollie Kathleen. The mine was closed when it became too expensive to extract the precious metal from the ore, and it was later converted into the attraction that it is today.
Visitors are lowered in cages 1,000 feet below the surface and are taken on an hour-long tour of the mine. It's both educational and entertaining. At the end you're given a souvenir rock that's guaranteed to contain gold.
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A fatal elevator accident in October 2024 (the casualty was a tour guide) cast a pall over this seasonal mine tour, but it expects to reopen for business in April 2025.