Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway
Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in Colorado. Within Colorado it covers roughly 140 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Gold Belt Tour links Cañon City with the historic gold-mining district of Cripple Creek and Victor, partly over the narrow, cliff-hanging Shelf Road and Phantom Canyon Road — both former railroad and stage grades that are unpaved and not for the timid. Along the way lies the Garden Park Fossil Area, source of some of the most important dinosaur skeletons ever found. The high mining towns preserve a remarkable amount of Gilded Age architecture.
- Shelf & Phantom Canyon roads
- Cripple Creek & Victor
- Garden Park dinosaur fossils
- Cañon City
- historic gold district
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.