The Town of Minturn, Colorado is located 100 minutes west of Denver in the beautiful Vail Valley. Unlike their neighbors at Vail and Beaver Creek, Minturn’s oldest families settled at the confluence of Gore Creek and the Eagle River in the late 1800s. Some created homesteads and farmed the land, while others mined silver in the mountains high above town. With the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1887, Minturn quickly developed into a booming crossroads for transportation and industry. By the turn of the century, a growing population of mining and railroad workers and their families raised the demands for business and services in town. In response, Minturn was incorporated on November 15, 1904.

Today, Minturn is a Small, Tight-Knit Community that Values its Natural Setting and Builds on its Mining and Railroad Heritage.