Lake City Museum

Masonic Lodge Tour with Charles (Yogi) Ferris
2024-07-18 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | CO
Join us for a rare opportunity to visit the historic Crystal Lake Lodge Masonic Building on Silver Street. The Masons have been active in Lake City since 1875, and this building has served as their lodge since 1908. It is a fascinating time capsule, with many original pieces of furniture as well as lodge fixtures and accessories which are still in use today. The evening will begin with brief introductory remarks by Museum Director Grant Houston & docent Greg Hoffman.
2 PM Tuesday, July 18
Tickets Available
Tickets – $20 for adults, $5 for children under 13. Available at the door or lakecitymuseum.com. Meet at the Lake City Masonic Lodge, 215 Silver Street in Lake City

Ute Indian Culture of Southwestern Colorado with P.David Smith
2024-07-16 17:30 - 18:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
“The Ute Indians were the first historic, nomadic Native Americans in the San Juans. They were sometimes at peace and sometimes at war.”
Join us July 16th, and August 13th for an enlightening lecture about the Ute Indian Culture of Southwestern Colorado. Tickets are available at the door or online at LakeCityMuseum.com. This lecture will be presented at the Hinsdale County Museum, 130 N Silver Street.
July 16th & August 13th, 2024, 5:30PM
Tickets are $10

Cemetery Tour with Grant Houston
2024-07-13 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-06-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Join us June 15th and July 13th for a tour of Lake City’s historic graveyard. Dive into the past and learn about the twilight tales of former Lake City. Meet at the museum (130 N Silver Street) at 1:45 pm and leave at 2pm. Signup sheets available at the door.
June 15th and July 13th at 2PM
$10 per adult and $2 per child
Tickets available at Lakecitymuseum.com
or at the door.

Ghost Tour w/ Jesse Kendall
2024-07-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-07-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-14 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-31 19:30 - 21:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Come learn about our local ghosts on a walking tour of Lake City’s Historic District – from town-wide arsenic poisonings to corpse amputations, duels to hangings, child poltergeists to apparitions, we’ve got it all. Meet at Museum at 7:15 PM.
Adults $15 / Children under 10 – $5
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Alfred Packer Lecture & Courthouse Tour with Mike Harrington
2024-07-10 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-06-26 14:00 - 15:30 | Hinsdale County Courthouse, 317 N. Henson, Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Learn about the entire lifetime of Alferd Packer. From birth through the Civil War, his times and trials in Colorado, his hardship with survival and starvation, to his trial and punishment for cannibalism.
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San Juan City, Provisional County Seat of Hinsdale County, 1874-1875
2024-07-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
“Near where the road crosses Clear Creek, a half dozen abandoned log cabins stand. They were once honored with the title of San Juan City. C. W. Brooks has erected a substantial stone building at this place, where a Post Office has been established.”
-The Colorado Daily Chieftain, September 4, 1875
Tuesday, July 9th at 6 PM
Tickets Available for $10
Available at door or at LakeCityMuseum.com

Booher Event- ' Reynolds' Last Best Chance' Book Signing
2024-07-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Join us Tuesday July 2nd for a free book signing event! Author Don Booher will be signing his book ‘ Reynolds’ Last Best Chance’.
“They were real men of sterling quality, belonging to that class which future generations will delight to honor as pathfinders, trailblazers, and empire builders.Oft indeed do I feel grateful that it was my good fortune to associate with such men.” – The Cook (description from the back of the book)
Free to the publicInformation available at the Hinsdale County Museum or LakeCityMuseum.comHinsdale County Museum 130 N Silver Street

Lost Lake City w/ Dr. Mette Flynt
2024-06-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Lost Lake City explores forgotten people and places erased by fire, flood, and social change. Learn about early Black entrepreneurs, Jewish community leaders, the railroad, Red Light District, and more on this 1.5-hour walking tour. Begins at the museum at 2 P.M.
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Lost Lake City with Dr. Mette Flynt
2024-06-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
“Lost Lake City explores forgotten people and places erased by fire, flood, and social change. Learn about early Black entrepreneurs, Jewish community leaders, the railroad, Red Light District, and more on this 1.5 hour walking tour.”
June 28th at 2PM
Tickets are available at the door or at Lakecitymuseum.com. Meet at the museum at 1:45pm, there are signup sheets available at the door before the event.
$10 for adults and $2 for children

Glacier Lecture with Harvey DuChene
2024-06-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
On June 25th, 2024, local geologist Harvey DuChene will present his program “ ICE! The Glacial History of The San Juans” .Harvey will point out local geographic features carved or deposited by ice and also discuss what animals might have lived in the Lake Fork Valley during this most recent glacial episode.
Tickets available online at LakeCityMuseum.com for advanced purchase, tickets available at the museum, or on our Facebook page. Tickets are $10.

Ghost Tour with Jesse Kendall
2024-06-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Come learn about our local ghosts on a walking tour of Lake City’s Historic District – from town-wide arsenic poisonings to corpse amputations, duels to hangings, child poltergeists to apparitions, we’ve got it all. Meet at the museum at 7:15 PM.
Adults – $15 / Children under 10 – $5
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Vickers Chuckwagon Dinner and Ranch Tour
2024-06-20 17:00 - 2024-07-20 19:00 | Vickers Ranch House, 1728 Park Creek Rd, Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Vickers ranch tour and chuckwagon dinner! Come see the Vickers Rec Hall (Perk’s Place). With guest speaker Duane Vandenbusch! Includes dinner and one drink, followed by cash bar. Available at the Hinsdale County Museum or LakeCityMuseum.com

Tickets available
Adult and children ticket prices are $50
June 20th, 2024-5pm and August 8th,2024-5pm

Town Walking History Tour with Grant Houston
2024-06-14 14:00 - 15:30 | CO
Join Grant Houston in a historical tour of our beloved Lake City. In this thrilling tour learn about: Lake City’s volcanic and glacial era, Ute Indian lands, and several of Lake City’s most historic and important landmarks.
June 14th and July 19th at 2PM
$10 per adult and $2 per child
Tickets available at Lakecitymuseum.com or at the door
Meet at the museum at 1:45pm, there are signup sheets available at the door before the event.

Volcano Tour w/ Harvey DuChene
2024-06-01 08:45 - 13:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Meet at the Museum at 8:45 A.M. with a vehicle (carpooling encouraged) for a 4-hour tour about local volcanoes from geologist Harvey DuChene. We suggest bringing water and a folding camp chair. Sorry, no children under 12 years old.
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Christmas in Lake City
2023-12-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
The Hinsdale County Museum will be open from 11 AM – 2 PM during Christmas in Lake City. Stop by to shop our museum store for great stocking stuffers and Christmas presents!

Turkey Trot
2023-11-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Join us on Thanksgiving Day for a fun walk beginning at the Hinsdale County Museum on 10 AM. Please bring a donation to benefit the Hinsdale County Sheriff’s Office ‘Toys for Tots’, which provides toys and warm clothing for children in our community this Christmas.
Refresments will be served.

Free Admission Day!
2023-10-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Visit the Hinsdale County Museum for FREE!
We’re open 1 – 4 PM this Sunday with free admission to all of our exhibits!

Book Signing with Don Booher
2023-08-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Join us at the museum with author Don Booher! He will be speaking, answering questions, and signing copies of his book, Fortress San Juans! The book is on sale at the museum store now!

Overview of Fortress San Juans:
To nineteenth-century gold-seekers, the San Juans Range was a formidable natural fortress. Moat-like rivers, towering rock walls, and canon mazes laced across 17,000 square miles guarded its treasures and kept its secrets. If remote and unyielding terrain did not intimidate adventurers, Ute war parties did. Even so, young America’s western expansion-in large part the hand-work of a generation of dreamers-demonstrated that strength of pilgrim character could triumph over unrelenting hardship and constant threat of death. The same grit and determination would be called upon to breach the San Juans fortress.

But the transformation of agrarian America into a continental industrial power, “manifest destiny” by another name, had to come first. It began with mass migrations of homesteaders and gold-seekers to Oregon and California. A decade later gold discovered along Colorado’s Front Range spawned a third mass migration to the Rocky Mountains. Still the San Juans fortress stood strong.

Another fifteen years and another gold-rush were required. Unlike the rushes before it, the “San Juans excitement” had to await the end of the Nation’s civil war and the construction of regional supply depots, toll roads and rail service. Achieving at least a semblance of peace with Ute defenders also was wise. Who were these brave hearts that transformed the American West and ultimately the San Juans range? “Of course,” you answer, “they were gold seekers. “Yes,” I say, “but as you will read here, they were as much more.”

Scarlet Belles
2023-08-15 18:30 - 21:30 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Returning, triumphant, for its 10th season – Lake City’s own Scarlet Belles musical performance! Written by Grant Houston and Mary Stigall, and directed by Alice Curry, this play will introduce you to some (fictional) characters from Lake City’s historic red light district.
Doors at 6:30 P.M., Music at 7:00 P.M., Show at 7:30 P.M.
$25 for Adults (play contains mature themes)
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Antique Advertising w/ Greg Hoffman
2023-08-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Hinsdale County Museum, 130 Silver St., Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
This presentation will examine real promotional objects, devices and signs used for the advertising of goods and services in America beginning in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. Featured pieces will come from the speaker’s collection as well as rarely-seen holdings from the basement of the Lake City Museum. Come see the many clever and whimsical ways that stores, service providers and consumer brands attempted to reach their customers in days gone by.
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Vickers Ranch Tour & Chuckwagon Dinner
2023-08-10 16:00 - 20:00 | Vickers Ranch House, 1728 Park Creek Rd, Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Vickers Ranch is hosting a party! Come see the Vickers Ranch House and Rec Hall (Perk’s Place). There will also be a special showing of a collection of Lake City memories with Perk Vickers, Joel Swank, and Herman Heath from 1994. Includes dinner and one drink, followed by cash bar.
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Masonic Lodge Tour with Charles (Yogi) Ferris
2023-08-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Lake City Masonic Lodge, 215 Silver Street, Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Join us for a rare opportunity to visit the historic Crystal Lake Lodge Masonic Building on Silver Street. The Masons have been active in Lake City since 1875, and this building has served as their lodge since 1908. It is a fascinating time capsule, with many original pieces of furniture as well as lodge fixtures and accessories which are still in use today. The evening will begin with brief introductory remarks by Museum Director Grant Houston & docent Greg Hoffman.
Meet at the Lake City Masonic Lodge – 215 Silver Street in Lake City
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Courthouse Tour w/ Dr. Mette Flynt
2023-08-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Hinsdale County Courthouse, 317 N. Henson, Lake City, CO, 81235, United States
Begins at 10 A.M. at the Hinsdale County courthouse. This tour explores the fascinating trials, laws, and officials who shaped Colorado’s oldest continuously operating courthouse.
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