Tiger Colorado Townsite - Ghost town
The tiger says, Look close or you won't find me. As I walked around where the old town site was I discovered numerous pieces of evidence that at one time a town was here. When I first read about this town I was discouraged. This was a company built town. In 1973 the Breckenridge volunteer fire department burned it to the ground. Of course the Forest Service approved the burning of the ghost town. Why? Tiger was easily accessible to anyone and it was occupied by transients. The forest service thought it was easier to burn the whole town down than to try to keep the hippies out. Another ghost town up in smoke.
Photos courtesy of Mike Sinnwell September 2006
A viewer writes - Read your comments re Tiger Colorado and the transient hippies...Thanks a lot Forrest Service ..better to burn it down than have some hippies/transients etc enjoying the deserted town for free ..smokin those weeds , stinking up the place with patchouli oil ..Thank God for their genius solution ..their patriotism .. their dedication to preserving history for all of ...wait.....they did WHAT????
...They were paid for this? not arrested? go figure LES
A viewer writes April 2008 - I lived in Tiger for a short while as a child. Dad worked for the lumber mill. The owner of the company had a terrible reputation. Stores and banks wouldn't take his checks. There was no running water. A pond at the end of the road supplied water to the town. A pile of rocks was kept there to break the ice. We strained pollywogs from the water in the warm months. It is sad to find that the town was burned.
A viewer writes September 2008 - My family and I lived for awhile in Kokomo, Co back in the fifties. My dad worked for Ryan Construction, and he found a ghost town way up above Climax. It was called New Boston. Do you have any information on that town? Kokomo was an enchanting place to live. Our house was an old mining cabin, with a dugout room at the back. It had a huge door that opened into a very large room, almost like a cave. We had running water, an outhouse, and electricity and cooked on a wood stove. The school had two classrooms. Later we moved to Tiger. That town was eventually burned by the state.
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