Cleora
Cemetery Tour
LIfe & Death in Early Chaffee County
ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Walk through the region’s first burial ground—
where the earliest lives in Chaffee County are still marked in stone.
Pioneers. Miners. Families.
Their stories aren’t displayed. They’re buried here.
A true boot hill cemetery with no formal layout --
just history, waiting to be discovered.
A CEMETERY
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
No gates. No map.
Just a hillside shaped by time.
Cleora Cemetery wasn’t planned.
It grew as people were laid to rest—where space allowed, where families chose.
The result isn’t orderly.
It’s honest.
THE LIVES
BEHIND THE STONES
From miners and merchants
to mothers and outlaws—
each grave marks a life that helped build this place.
Not all were remembered equally.
But they’re all still here.
HISTORY YOU CAN WALK
You’re not walking past exhibits.
You’re walking among them.
Every name, every date, every unmarked space—
part of the same story.
And we tell it standing where it happened.
WALK THROUGH. REMEMBER FOREVER.
Saturdays in September
10 AM
$35 per person
Small groups
Limited space
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