Elbert County, Colorado
Elizabeth
An independent guide to Elizabeth, Colorado: Main Street, the Stampede, the Palmer Divide, and what it’s like to live an hour from Denver on the prairie.
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This week in Elizabeth
What’s on
Eat, drink, wander
Where to go
ParkCounty Road 17, east of town
Casey Jones Park
The Park & Rec District's 103-acre park east of town: lighted ball fields, a turf field, four pickleball courts, a playground, the rodeo arena, a dog park and a 1.5-mile soft-surface trail.
BarHistoric Main Street
The Elizabeth Brewing Company
The town's brewery, in the 1882 Huber-Carlson Building on Main Street: a five-barrel brewhouse on the ground floor, a taproom upstairs, a beer garden and patio behind.
VenueCasey Jones Park, Highway 86
Elizabeth Stampede rodeo grounds
The arena at Casey Jones Park where the Elizabeth Stampede runs its PRCA rodeo, parade and concert the first weekend of June.
- The Coffee House on Main Street Coffee & Sweets
- Elizabeth Library Venue
- Evans Park Park
- Historic Main Street Venue
- Powder River Custom Hat Company Shop
- The Nest at the 1897 House Shop
- 86 & Main Shop
- Antelope Alpacas Fiber Arts Center Shop
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History ·
Elizabeth history: a sawmill camp, a railroad, and two buildings that were nearly lost
A timber camp on the Palmer Divide named for a governor's relative, a post office in 1882, incorporation in 1890, a bank that closed in the Depression and waited a century for the National Register, and a sculptor who saved the oldest building on Main Street.
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Moving here
Thinking of making Elizabeth home?
Schools, commutes, what the housing market looks like, and what nobody tells you until you live here.
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