Breckenridge Gold Mine Tour: Authentic Gold Rush Experience

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Experience the authentic Breckenridge Gold Mine Tour and immerse yourself in the captivating history of mining towns. Try your hand at gold panning and interact with friendly burros. Don’t miss this top-rated Colorado experience!

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Rocky Mountains - In the midst of the majestic Rocky Mountains, the Country Boy Mine was one of the largest and most famous gold mines in Breckenridge, Colorado. Today, we invite you to visit the Country Boy Mine and enjoy the many activities the mine has to offer. Join us for a mine tour into a real gold mine at this historic restored mining…

What's Included

Gold Panning
All fees and/or taxes included

Additional Information

Discover the authentic and captivating Country Boy Mine on this exciting and educational tour. Dating back to 1887, Country Boy Mine offers a unique opportunity to explore the history of mining towns in the olden days. This interactive tour allows you to delve into the fascinating world of mining in Breckenridge, with the only real open mine in the…

Location

Country Boy Mine

French Gulch Road

Drive along Reiling road until you see our flags and sign on the right. We are 400 yards further along from the free bus service (Purple Route)

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Love2rvcamp

Jan 19, 2025

Mine tour - We did the mine tour which takes you 1100 feet into the old goldmine. Ryan was our guide and provided a lot of information as well as making the trip fun.

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Gregory_s

Jan 17, 2025

Amazing Memories and Amazing People - I brought my son Connor Spivey (RIP) here in February 2015 and his brother Jonathan on January 16, 2025. Amazing memories and amazing people at Country Boy Mine!!!

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Tdeibel

Dec 31, 2024

Go for the mine tour, stay for everything else! - The mine tour was nice - our guide was informative and patient. But the best part was all the other activities that were available (for Free!). They had a small sled/tube slide with tubes and sleds to borrow - you have to walk back up the hill, but it was a great way to see how our little ones would react to the bigger slides available in the area. I thought the gold panning would be a 1 and done - thinking it would be way to cold to go panning. But they had 2 large stock tanks inside a building with 'mine dirt'. The building was a mini-museum with things kids could play with, there was little fireplace that kept the room warm and the tanks had heaters in them that made the water luke warm. We spent about 1.5 hours panning for gold and found many small minerals - pyrite, quartz, amethyst, copper and maybe a few flecks of gold.

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Tlc123-travels

Oct 28, 2024

Great Excursion - This was a great tour. Interesting to hear about the miners and the history and evolution of the mine. The panning for gold and other gems at the end was fun. My son was sure excited about the treasures he got to take home.

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W3445dbsarahj

Oct 12, 2024

Great mining tour and panning and wonderfully warm and knowledgable staff! - The people who work here really made this experience so wonderful! Everyone was really friendly, great with kids, and so knowledgable. Just genuinely nice people and a really fun experience for my two girls (8 and 10). I saw plenty of adult getting into the gold panning too though. I recommend doing the tour and the gold panning. I also recommend renting boots so that you don't have to worry about wet pants and shoes!

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619amandalees

Oct 10, 2024

Interesting - Our tour guide (Mike) was incredible. He did not shy away from discussing some of the harrowing labor practices during the mine's active years, and he really helped cultivate a sense of empathy for people in he past. He was incredibly knowledgeable and great with the kids on our tour. The entire experience was interesting.

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Joannefw8134rl

Aug 17, 2024

Don't miss it. - Our guide in the mine was great and we all had more than we expected panning for gold! We came for the kids, but the grownups had just as much fun!

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David_from_the_burgh

Aug 16, 2024

Former schoolteacher elementary kids did awesome with the tour - Michael was our guide and had been a former school teacher for first through third grades. We had our two foster sons with us that both are getting ready to go into third grade. They were both excited about the tour and really appreciate that Michael wasn’t put off with all their questions. He was great with answering them and giving the boys the opportunity to try out several activities that were common at that time. It was an hour well spent and will do it again when we come out next year.

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Alessandrotj8273ul

Sep 29, 2024

COUNTRY BOY MINEZ - Loved your mines! But the tour was short, I wish I would spent a little more time in the mines. The tour guide really looked like he wanted to go home, which I totally get, but I spent a lot of money to be there. But, however, I will say that something unexpected happened which lengthened my commute, and the people there had no issue moving up my time slot. I'm really thankful for that, it happened literally instantaneously, and they were so nice about it. I came here for a birthday and everyone had a really good time. My only main complaint is that I thought the price was a bit steep for the experience. The mines were definitely cool, and everyone had a blast, but $50 seems like quite a lot, if they were like $35 it would seem a lot more reasonable.

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G102tnwilliamm

Aug 22, 2024

Nice, but not what you think it will be. - It was interesting to see how the old timers worked. Misleading to say “descend “ into the mine, when you actually walk into a horizontal tunnel at ground level. Guide did a good job. There is no active mining going on.

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