New Castle, Colorado

New Castle Colorado New Castle is located on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains, 173 miles west of Denver, this town of 3,000 residents rests at 5,550 feet elevation. The Town is bordered on the north by 7,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management lands and 20,000 acres of White River National Forest lands. South of Town are 11,000 acres of protected Division of Wildlife properties.

New Castle is named after the English coal-mining town Newcastle upon Tyne, was incorporated in 1888. The mountains rich with coal surrounding the Town were the impetus for New Castle’s development into the bustling mining community it became in the late 1880s.  It is also the site of a mine fire that has been burning since 1899.

 

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