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Tunnel to Cripple creek

The Tunnel is closed

It had been a few years that I had driven to Cripple Creek and it was a shock to see that the old tunnel had been closed up.

Negotiating the tunnel was one of those things you never forget. It was one way and you would carefully pull into it, honk your horn and slowly drive just around a slight curve watching whether it was clear to go on. If it wasn’t, you had to back out. You had to turn your lights on as it was long enough to be pretty dark in the middle of it.

With gambling coming to Cripple Creek and traffic increasing, the tunnel was made obsolete. It was also falling in. Hard to believe that a one lane tunnel provided the main access on Highway 67 to this historic mining town all those years.