Private Leadville and Camp Hale Historic Tour from Vail

hauffeur handling every mile of mountain highway. Your first stop is Camp Hale, the valley floor where the Army trained the 10th Mountain Division to fight in the Alps. Thirty thousand soldiers learned to ski and climb here during the Second World War, and the foundations of their barracks still sit in the meadow. It became a National Monument in 2022. Veterans of the 10th came home from that war and built Vail. From there you climb Tennessee Pass and drop into Leadville, at 10,152 feet the highest incorporated city in North America. The whole downtown is a National Historic Landmark District. Silver built it, and the boom money still shows in the opera house and the Victorian storefronts on Harrison Avenue. You get time on your own to walk it, have lunch, visit the mining museum or ride the historic railroad. Heading back you cross the Continental Divide, with Mount Elbert, the highest peak in Colorado, rising to the south. The route follows US Highway 24, plowed all winter, so this runs year round. One flat price per vehicle, and the vehicle is yours alone all day.