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Typical Month
August
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Duration
3 days
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Size
small
About Lake County Fair
The Lake County Fair in Leadville celebrates the highest incorporated city in the United States — Leadville sits at 10,152 feet elevation in the heart of Colorado's silver and gold mining country, and the county's extraordinary mining heritage (the Matchless Mine, the Tabor Opera House, Baby Doe Tabor), the Arkansas River headwaters' gold-medal trout fishing, and the challenging Leadville 100 ultramarathon define a high-altitude county of remarkable character.
What to Expect
Expect livestock shows, 4-H competitions, mining heritage exhibits, local food vendors, and a fair celebrating the extraordinary high-altitude heritage of America's highest city.
Visitor Tips
Leadville's National Mining Hall of Fame and Healy House and Dexter Cabin preserve the extraordinary Gilded Age wealth of the silver boom era. The Matchless Mine where Baby Doe Tabor froze to death in 1935 is one of Colorado's most poignant heritage sites. Mount Elbert (14,439 feet) — Colorado's highest peak — is accessible from the county.
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