Things to Do

Breckenridge is built for skiing, hiking, biking, and wandering a historic downtown between mountain days. The best plan is simple: one big outdoor activity, one museum or mine site, and enough time on Main Street to let the town do its work.

Guide

Things to Do

01

Breckenridge Ski Resort

Five peaks of skiing above one of Colorado's liveliest mountain towns.
02

Main Street Historic District

Victorian storefronts, old mining-town bones, and the social center of Breckenridge.

Architecture
03

Mohawk Lakes Trail

A demanding hike past waterfalls, old mining ruins, and alpine lakes.
04

Boreas Pass

A high mountain road with mining relics, railway history, and superb autumn color.

Sight
05

Barney Ford Museum

A small house museum about a formerly enslaved entrepreneur and civil-rights advocate.

Museum
06

International Snow Sculpture Championships

A winter event where teams carve enormous snow blocks into temporary public art.
07

Cucumber Gulch Preserve

Wetlands and wildlife habitat tucked surprisingly close to the ski base.
08

McCullough Gulch

A rocky alpine trail to waterfalls, wildflowers, and blue high-country tarns.
09

Edwin Carter Museum

A natural-history museum in the cabin of a miner turned wildlife collector.

Museum
10

Breckenridge Troll

Isak Heartstone, the wooden troll who became Breckenridge's odd modern mascot.

Sight
11

Country Boy Mine

A family-friendly mine tour that goes underground into Breckenridge's hard-rock past.

Museum
12

Blue River Recpath

A paved cycling and walking route following the valley through Summit County.
13

Breckenridge Nordic Center

Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails through forest at the edge of town.
14

Reiling Dredge

A half-sunken mining dredge, blunt evidence of how rough gold fever was on the landscape.

Sight
15

Historic Father Dyer Church

Historic Father Dyer Church dates from 1880 and is one of Breckenridge's small but meaningful historic buildings. It is named for Father John Lewis …

Sight
16

Carter Park

A town park with sledding, dog walks, and quick trails above Main Street.