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Lookout Mountain, a 7,377-foot foothill above Golden on Colorado’s Front Range, has long been valued for its commanding views across the plains and toward Denver. The Ute used it as a lookout over the surrounding country, and its position later gave it importance for transportation, water supply, recreation, and telecommunications. An unfinished 1890s narrow-gauge rail project and the 1913 Lariat Loop road shaped access to the mountain. Today it remains a major recreation destination, with trails, paragliding launch points, a nature center, Buffalo Bill Cody’s gravesite, and historic places including Boettcher Mansion, built in 1917 and later donated to Jefferson County.
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