GC1V30C Gateway Downs
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: S Company @ | Hide Date: 06/22/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 03.308 W102° 09.262 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
     

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Pull off for parking on South side of the Highway. Log only. *BYOP*

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Gateway Downs in Holly operated from 1965 to approximately 1995 as a horse track. It is a half mile oval and in its day was one of Colorado's longest in days raced per year. Local hero Donald Pettinger rode in the Kentucky Derby in 1989 after racing on Gateway Downs. The locals would volunteer to run almost the entire race day events. Teachers and postal workers and others along with traditional ranching background volunteers would also work the event making it a community town backed event. But as was the case with other live horse racing venues it succombed to more expenses and smaller attendances brought on by off track betting and other challenges not in their control and ceased operations in 1995. The track is kept up by the local saddle club today.

06/14/2019 By richardnajera
Biked here from Austin, Texas. On our way to Anchorage, Alaska.
We're a nonprofit organization from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas 4000, that fundraises money for cancer research & support services, volunteers in the community, trains for over a year and a half, and finally, biked across the country in the world's longest annual charity bike ride

We were biking through this town when my group and I decided to search for a cache.

Check us out at bit.ly/biking4cancer or texas4000.org !

Rockies '19

06/07/2019 By abandoned6
Look for a while but did not find. Muggled maybe?

06/07/2019 By bfkandi
Spent some time looking but no luck. Did not find.

05/15/2019 By shamrock67
Interesting story but no luck

05/03/2019 By NanC
No sign of cache

08/25/2018 By J&J Team Yukon
On road trip heading to Colorado. Stopped for this easy find to check off another county. TFTH

07/15/2018 By mandrine85
Quick find.

02/16/2018 By mondou2
Visiting from Denver. Enjoyed the hunt for this cache. SL. Thanks for the fun!

12/08/2017 By DestinationUnknown81
UTFTC SL!!!

11/26/2017 By afudc
I drove 530 miles today and managed to find 29 caches as I made my way from Dodge City to Montrose. I was trying to find caches in new counties so I did a little bit of wandering along the way. The weather was great and the traffic wasn't a problem, so all in all a great day.
A quick find. Interesting bit of history about the races.
Thanks for the fun!