King's Saddlery and Museum

King's Saddlery at 184 North Main Street is both a functioning saddle-making workshop and a museum. The front of the building sells handmade saddles, ropes, and Western gear; the back contains several rooms of artefacts — wagons, carriages, Native American beadwork, historic photographs, branding irons, and cowboy equipment spanning more than a century of the region's history.

Admission to the museum is free. The craftsmen in the workshop still make saddles to order, and you can watch the work in progress. This is not a recreation: King's Ropes, made here, are shipped to working ranches across the West. The combination of live craft tradition and serious museum collection is unusual and worth time.

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King's Saddlery has been making custom saddles at 184 North Main Street since 1946, and its ropes — made in-house — are used by working cowboys across the Rocky Mountain West. The museum section was an afterthought that grew: Don King began collecting Western artefacts, and over five decades the back of a saddle shop became one of the largest private collections of cowboy gear and Native American artefacts in the country.