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, please be sure to arrive before the tour leaves at 7:30pm. Adults $15 and Children […]

Once Lost Lake City, returns this summer as Hidden Histories of 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. Tickets Available Here […]

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. Tickets Available Here or at Hinsdale County Museum

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, please be sure to arrive before the tour leaves at 7:30pm. Adults $15 and Children […]

Take a tour of Helen's Garden at 9 am with horticulturist Alice Attaway, who maintains the museum's extravagant outdoor high-altitude floral displays. The garden is a memorial for Helen Ewart, a Lake City native. During the tour, you will learn about the pleasures and pains of modern high-altitude gardening and farming compared with what people […]

Join us July 17th and August 8th 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. Tickets available here 

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, please be sure to arrive before the tour leaves at 7:30pm. Adults $15 and Children […]

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 and tours are limited to 15 people. July 18th, 2026, at 8:45am to 1:00pm Tickets Available […]

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. Tickets available here 

Take a tour of Helen's Garden at 9 am with horticulturist Alice Attaway, who maintains the museum's extravagant outdoor high-altitude floral displays. The garden is a memorial for Helen Ewart, a Lake City native. During the tour, you will learn about the pleasures and pains of modern high-altitude gardening and farming compared with what people […]

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. Tickets Available Here or at Hinsdale County Museum

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, please be sure to arrive before the tour leaves at 7:30pm. Adults $15 and Children […]

In this three-hour class, you will learn about the volcanic origin of rocks and minerals found around Lake City. You will also learn the difference between igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. The last half of the class focuses on minerals common around Lake City and includes hands-on analysis of a mystery specimen. August 10th at […]

Join us for a lecture with author David Primus on the history of the Gunnison River Valley before Blue Mesa Reservoir was completed in 1965. He will discuss fishing resorts, ranches, towns, and the narrow-gauge railroad that now lie beneath the reservoir as remembered by local residents. Tickets available here 

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, please be sure to arrive before the tour leaves at 7:30pm. Adults $15 and Children […]

After years of meticulous restoration, the historic Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge Car 211 is making its triumphant return. This 1881 railroad car, which once carried passengers and freight between Lake City and Sapinero until 1933, has been painstakingly brought back to life—at a cost exceeding $400,000—through workshops at the Durango & Silverton […]