Historic Places of Livermore, Colorado

In the early days, the road between the Forks and Log Cabin went south around McNey Hill, not over the top as we drive today. Thousands of travelers passed along this route in the 1880s, back and forth to the gold discoveries and growing towns at Manhattan , Lulu City , and Teller City . As the only road between the supply town of Fort Collins and North Park, on the far side of Cameron Pass, all freight, supplies, equipment, building materials passed over it. The tracks of the 125-year-old alignment are still visible. The grasses are yet to grow back, and the roadway can be seen rising across the crest of the hillside. Today's alignment of Red Feather Lakes Road, over the top of the hill, was engineered in 1896. Prior to that, the wagon road turned south just as the road emerges at the top of today's S-curve, on the west, at about mile marker 8. The wagon road can be seen from that vantage point, about a quarter mile downhill from the parking area of the Cherokee Park State Wil