Historic Jeffco

The Golden Gate Toll Road, in Clear Creek Canyon



  

The Golden Gate Toll Road, also known as the Golden Gate & Gregory Road, climbed through Tucker Gulch and Golden Gate Canyon to the Central City Mining District.

Photos on this page courtesy Peter J. Modreski.

Golden Gate Toll Road

The plaque on the monument reads:

GOLDEN GATE TOLL ROAD
SHORT CUT TO GREGORY DIGGINGS
OPERATED FROM 1860 TO 1871
OWNERS
ALFRED TUCKER & ELISHA DUNCAN
DEDICATED BY
DAUGHTERS OF COLORADO
MAY 12 1938


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