Platte River Placers Mine

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South Park City

Museum

Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.

South Park City is an open-air museum located at the west end of Front Street in the town of Fairplay in Park County, Colorado. The museum is a historic reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and the later Colorado Silver Boom in South Park in the late 1850s through the 1880s. South Park City is situated 1 mile southeast of Platte River Placers Mine.

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Fairplay

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Fairplay is a town in the south central region of Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the United States of America. It is believed to be the virtual basis of the fictional town of South Park, in the animated series of the same name.

Alma Junction

Locality

Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.

Alma Junction was the terminal of the Fairplay–Alma branch of the Colorado and Southern railway in Colorado in the United States, which has been abandoned since the early 20th century. Alma Junction is situated 3 miles northwest of Platte River Placers Mine.

Alma

Village

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Alma is a statutory town in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 296 at the 2020 United States census. Alma is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. Alma is situated 4 miles northwest of Platte River Placers Mine.

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