Wash basin and inspirational message (if you're a cowboy) at Park Range Ranch's "Boettcher Lodge" in Jackson County, Colorado's North Par

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The lodge and a ring of guest cabins adjacent to the working cattle-ranch portion of the operation, are part of what the ranch calls "Fort Boettcher." It isn't and was never a fort, though it looks like a modern version of a frontier outpost. "Boettcher," pronounced BETT-chur, was Charles Boettcher, a wealthy Leadville and Denver, Colorado, businessman who built the cabins as a fishing and hunting camp for his friends and raised draft horses in the pastures for the Denver tram system in the early 20th Century. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks."
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.