FLORESTA

NAME: Floresta
COUNTY: Gunnison
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 5
CLIMATE: Cold winter with snow, cool summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:
Summer
COMMENTS: Near Gunnison.
REMAINS: Not much of anything.

Floresta was originally named Ruby and then Ruby-Anthracite but then changed to the spanish word for "forest". Floresta was a coal mining town that eventually became the shipping hub for the area. The mines here were worked on and off until the mid 1930's.


Floresta - locked and posted- July 2001
Todd Underwood


Floresta is in this canyon somewhere
Todd Underwood


Floresta Remains
Courtesy R&D Middindorf


Floresta Remains
Courtesy R&D Middindorf


Floresta
Courtesy R&D Middindorf

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