“Paradise was defined for me and birthed in me by the theater of Creede, Colorado,” he said by phone recently. “It taught me what the theater was truly about: everyone working together to br ...

“And there is no night in Creede.” That was written by Cy Warman, who arrived at Colorado’s silver boom ... Though here it’s easy to imagine the inspiration of the old western tune.

CREEDE • It’s a place somewhere between Colorado’s majestic San Juan Mountains and magical San Luis Valley. A place overlooked by rugged, granite walls that tell tall tales of the past.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CREEDE, Colo. — It should come as no ...

Discover Creede’s rich history and what it reveals about the state’s mining origins. In so many ways, the story of Colorado is the story of mining. And Creede stands as one of the last mining ...

Founded as a silver-mining town in the late 1800s, Creede now serves as the jumping-off point to some of Colorado’s most popular backcountry regions: the Weminuche and La Garita Wilderness Areas, and ...

CREEDE, Colo. — If seniors graduating high school in Creede, Colorado could have scripted the perfect last year, they likely would have changed everything but the setting. “We live in Colorado ...

Colorado’s last silver boom town Creede incorporated in 1890 and burned down two years later. It burned again after twenty years, and for a third time in the 1930s. So citizens were well aware ...