Redstone - Colorado Ghost Town

REDSTONE

NAME: Redstone
COUNTY: Pitkin
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Cold Winter, mild summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Between Carbondale and Marble.
REMAINS: Many original buildings.

Redstone is a city that was built by J.G. Osgood. He built a 42 room manor, a 40 room inn, and a model village for his workers. Everything was lavishly finished, and even the stables were oak. Osgood is reported to have been one of the last independents to stand up to the likes of the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Goulds in his businesses. Today, his mansion still remains and there are plans to turn the area into ski runs and a tourist hub. Redstone Courtesy Dolores Steele Tables and seats in park are made of marble from the town of Marble Courtesy Dolores Steele	These "Beehive" coke ovens were constructed in the late 1890s to carbonize Or "coke" coal mined in the Coal Basin for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Courtesy Dolores Steele Redstone Courtesy Dolores Steele House Courtesy Dolores Steele House Courtesy Dolores Steele

Redstone is a city that was built by J.G. Osgood. He built a 42 room manor, a 40 room inn, and a model village for his workers. Everything was lavishly finished, and even the stables were oak. Osgood is reported to have been one of the last independents to stand up to the likes of the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Goulds in his businesses. Today, his mansion still remains and there are plans to turn the area into ski runs and a tourist hub.

Redstone
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Tables and seats in park are made of marble from the town of Marble
Courtesy Dolores Steele

These "Beehive" coke ovens were constructed in the late 1890s to carbonize Or
"coke" coal mined in the Coal Basin for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Redstone
Courtesy Dolores Steele

House
Courtesy Dolores Steele

BACK