Just ask about Zip Code 80429 and listen to the old timers tell you about Climax, Colorado, an old town near Breckenridge real estate. At 11,360 feet, Climax straddles the Continental Divide. It holds the record for the nation's highest post office and highest railroad!
Summertime in Climax is indeed heavenly! A second home in either nearby Leadville, property in Alma, or a condo in Frisco, Colorado will offer your family infinite options for hiking and biking and mingling with people from around the world. Real estate in Lake County, real estate in Summit County and real estate in Park County remain quality investments in your future as well.
Named for the exalted elevation of the Fremont Pass, Climax sits squarely at the headwaters of three major rivers: the Arkansas, the Eagle, and Tenmile Creek. Tenmile Creek is a tributary of the Blue River that offers some mighty large trout to fishermen at Copper Mountain, Frisco, and the Dillon Reservoir. There is enough water flowing through Climax each year to serve the residential needs of 120,000 families or 330,000 people! So reclamation and re-vegetation and maintaining water quality are top priority around here!
Climax, though mostly empty, is the site of a Phelps Dodge mining operation today. However, historically the Climax Molybdenum Company operated the largest molybdenum mine in the world, supplying 75% of the uses making radio tubes, auto and plane parts, chemical compounds and dyes. Molybdenum is used to harden steel. And the mine is on-again/off-again but always ready to be called into action.
Word is that the mine employed a cumulative 65,000 people and had a payroll over $80 million a year. Originally, the town had its own award-winning school, a hospital and employee housing. Most of the homes for the 1000 employees left in 1959 were hauled down Highway 91 to Leadville.
Though summertime offers nature's wildflower bouquets in every color of the rainbow, nearby wooded Copper Mountain is Summit County's largest and least crowded ski resort. The areas are neatly zoned for beginner, intermediate and expert skiing. Beginners head to the west side of the mountain, intermediates to the center, and expert skiers east and up over to the backside bowls for prime Colorado backcountry skiing.
A simple 90-minute drive from Denver International Airport just off I-70, Copper lies just west of the Ten Mile Range. With 280 inches of annual snowfall and snowmaking, the mountain allows some of the best early and late season snow in any North American location. Her village has been steadily improved in recent years.
Ask us about gorgeous wooded parcels for a vacation home or for full-time residency. We'll do a little digging and see what we can bring up for you!
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