The Eldo RoadyGoat
The Eldo is Crested Butte's only locally owned craft brewery and music venue, brewing its own beer since 1996. It sits upstairs over Elk Avenue with a deck overlooking Main Street, ten taps, and live music most weekend nights.
Crested Butte, Colorado
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This Quarry Built the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier RoadyGoat
1914Two of America's most sacred landmarks were carved from the mountain above this town. Between 1914 and 1916, the Yule quarry shipped its pure white stone east, where architect Henry Bacon had it used to clad the entire exterior of the Lincoln Memorial, the largest use of Colorado marble anywhere. Then came an even harder task. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington demanded a single flawless block. Crews cut one loose that weighed about one hundred twenty-four tons, then sawed it down to roughly fifty-six tons of perfect, crack-free marble, one of the largest flawless blocks ever quarried. Finished, it became the famous white sarcophagus that guards stand watch over to this day. The same seam that named a tiny Colorado town also gave the nation two of its quietest, grandest places.
17.2 mi away
Marble Has a Weakness: Acid Eats It Like Vinegar on a Seashell RoadyGoat
For all its strength, marble has a chemical Achilles' heel. The stone is almost pure calcium carbonate, the very same compound that makes up seashells and eggshells. And calcium carbonate has one famous enemy: acid. Drip vinegar on a seashell and it fizzes; the acid is dissolving the carbonate and releasing carbon dioxide gas. The exact same reaction happens to marble, just slower. Rain is naturally a little acidic, and pollution can make it more so, so every shower very gently eats at marble statues and gravestones. Over decades that is why old marble headstones go blurry, sharp carved letters soften, and faces lose their fine detail. The pure Yule Marble that built national monuments is no exception, which is why caretakers watch the weather as closely as they watch the stone.
17.6 mi away
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Everything Near Crested Butte
10 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
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The Eldo
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The Eldo is Crested Butte's only locally owned craft brewery and music venue, brewing its own beer since 1996. It sits upstairs over Elk Avenue with a deck overlooking Main Street, ten taps, and live music most weekend…
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Crested Butte, Colorado
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Hold on tight, because this beautiful mountain town has a surprising past life as a booming coal town. In the late 1800s, Crested Butte transformed from a quiet ranching area into a bustling hub for coal mining, fueled…
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Maroon Bells
· 13.9 mi · Things to Do
The most photographed peaks in Colorado. Twin 14ers reflected in a crystal alpine lake.
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Crystal Mill
· 14.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Hold your breath – you're approaching a Colorado icon, the Crystal Mill, frozen in time. Built in 1892, this wooden structure wasn't actually a mill in the traditional sense. It was a powerhouse, ingeniously using water…
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Ashcroft, Colorado
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Imagine a town fueled by silver, once poised to eclipse Aspen! Ashcroft, now a ghost town, was born as Castle Forks City in the spring of 1880, a boomtown hoping to strike it rich. A post office opened here in August of…
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This Quarry Built the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
· 17.2 mi
Two of America's most sacred landmarks were carved from the mountain above this town. Between 1914 and 1916, the Yule quarry shipped its pure white stone east, where architect Henry Bacon had it used to clad the entire…
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Marble Has a Weakness: Acid Eats It Like Vinegar on a Seashell
· 17.6 mi
For all its strength, marble has a chemical Achilles' heel. The stone is almost pure calcium carbonate, the very same compound that makes up seashells and eggshells. And calcium carbonate has one famous enemy: acid.…
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The Town That Took Its Name From a Mountain of White Stone
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Most towns are named for a founder, a river, or a faraway hometown. Marble, Colorado, was named for the rock in the cliffs above it. Tucked in the West Elk Mountains of Gunnison County along the Crystal River, the town…
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Marble Is Limestone That Got Cooked Until It Forgot Its Fossils
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Marble starts its life as something humbler: limestone, a soft rock often packed with seashells and fossils. Then geology turns up the heat. When limestone gets buried and squeezed under deep pressure and high…
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Why Sculptors Love Marble: Light Sinks In and the Stone Seems to Glow
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There is a reason the greatest sculptors reached for marble, and it is partly an optical trick. Marble is soft enough to carve in astonishing detail, fine grained enough to render an eyelid or a curl of hair. But the…
