Camera staff report Imagine water and rocks when you think of Eldorado Springs. Many residents are professional rock climbers or in the sports industry. The state park surrounding those canyon walls originally was used by the Utes as a natural healing spot. Today the mineral-free water is bottled as Eldorado Artesian Springs and shipped throughout the state.
Water is central to the Eldorado Springs story, say the locals.
Indoor and outdoor dance pavilions, a roller-skating rink, picnic and camping grounds and shops surrounded the pool. By 1906, a post office appeared at the resort, south of Boulder and west of Colo. 93. In 1907, former circus performer Ivy Baldwin arrived at the resort and strung a cable across the canyon walls. From 1907 until 1948 he made 86 tightrope walks across the canyon entertaining hundreds of tourists, who traveled from Denver on the interurban trains. The high point of each walk was Baldwin's midway stop on the cable where he would perform a handstand.