The historic Sunnyside Chapel, built in 1897 and now undergoing restoration to serve as a community center for locals, sits adjacent to three of Creede America’s 11 homes. —Photo by David O. Marlow ...

If ever a state embodied that Rocky Mountain high feeling, it's certainly colorful Colorado. John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" is one of the state's official songs, "America the Beautiful" was ...

It is fitting that the fire department for a former silver-mining town would be blasted into a mountainside. The fire station in Creede, Colo. (pop. 278) has been located underground since 1982 — a ...

Bill Dooley and his seven classmates had to memorize a poem in high school. “It’s day all day in the day-time,” goes the famous line. “And there is no night in Creede.” That was written by Cy Warman, ...

Perched at 8,900 feet in the San Juan Mountains, five hours from the nearest major airport and near the Rio Grande headwaters, Creede is a town of around 350 full-time residents, with one grocery ...

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. A place that ...

This remote town might seem like just a blip on the map, but Creede is at the epicenter of some of Colorado’s most spectacular outdoor recreation and scenery. North Clear Creek Falls is one of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Parks and Wildlife is looking for tips on an illegal killing of a black bear south of Creede last fall. CPW wildlife officers responded to a call of ...