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Enjoy a brief visual tour of Breckenridge, a reclaimed Victorian mining town presenting the ultimate in sports, food, shopping and lifestyle. Breckenridge is located two hours west of Denver International Airport via Interstate 70 and Colorado 9 southbound. It is located two and one-half hours northwest of Colorado Springs via U.S. 24 and Colorado 9 northbound. Our history and our future Founded in 1859, Breckenridge is the oldest continually occupied community in the Colorado mountains. Its past includes gold and silver mining, dredge boats, the itinerant preacher John Lewis Dyer, gunfights in the middle of Main Street, a daring daylight robbery by Pug Ryan and his band of desperados, the discovery of Colorado's largest gold nugget just a few miles outside of town and of course, skiing since the 1960's.