Museum and tours invite visitors to experience history By Estes Park Museum For the Trail-Gazette
Jay Leno revealing the intricacies of how to start a Stanley Steamer automobile, and the preserved clock frozen at the exact moment the flood crashed into the building taking it out of commission. Located at 1754 Fish Hatchery Road, Thursdays – Saturdays through September 4, with docent-led tours beginning at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Admission is free.
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he Estes Park Museum gallery has reopened to the public after being closed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Museum will resume regular operating hours of Wednesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. State and county guidelines will be followed, including limiting visitors to ten at a time, encouraging social distancing, following appropriate cleaning and sanitizing schedules, and requiring face coverings. A special welcome back gift will be given to visitors throughout the first week of the gallery reopening while supplies last. Plan a visit today. During the gallery closure, updates were made to the Museum’s permanent exhibit, such as additional interpretation, technology changes, and the acquisition of a 100-year-old fire cart used by the Estes Valley Volunteer Fire Department (now known as the Estes Valley Fire Protection District).
Historic Downtown Walking Tours to run June 1-Aug. 31
Discover the hidden past on a walking tour of downtown Identical tours are offered on Mondays and Tuesdays from Estes Park with the Estes Tuesday, June 1 through Tuesday, Aug. 31 Park Museum. During the tour, participants will be guided by trained docents to Free Historic Fall River to provide electric power to explore historic photographs the Stanley Hotel. The plant Hydroplant opens from the Museum’s collection was the exclusive source of June 3 to aid in comparing the past electricity for the Town of The Historic Fall River to the present. Estes Park until the 1940s Hydroplant will open for the In 1905, Cornelius Bond and functioned up to the day 2021 season beginning Thursday, June 3. Guests of all ages of the 1982 Lawn Lake Flood. and the Estes Park Town Company hired Abner The historic structure proare encouraged to enrich their knowledge of local Estes vides the perfect environment Sprague to plat the downtown to learn about various aspects district. Within weeks, lots Park history this summer along the street named “Elkwith a visit to the Historic Fall of Estes Park history. The horn Avenue” were taken up plant features photographs River Hydroplant. Listed on and new businesses were capturing Mr. Stanley’s time the National Register of Hisestablished. Over the course and legacy in Estes Park, an toric Places, F. O. Stanley See MUSEUM, pg. 28 built the Hydroplant in 1909 entertaining film of comedian Estes Park Museum / Courtesy photo
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