Hinsdale County

The ghost town of Carson is a well-preserved frontier town located in the mountains near Lake City. Its claim to fame is that President McKinley was on his way there when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901.

Lake City is the only municipality in Hinsdale County, and infamous as the mountain town where Alfred Packer was tried for cannibalism in 1874. The town is located on San Cristobal Lake, the second-largest natural lake in Colorado.

The Hinsdale County Museum is housed in a building that dates from 1877. It is owned by the Hinsdale County Historical Society. The historical society offers walking tours, cemetery tours and ghost tours from June through early September.