A Great Day to Be in Colorado
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Oct. 19th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Fall Whale of a Used Book Sale
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Church Services
- 9AM-5PM - Harvest Haunt Express
- 9AM-5PM - Harvest Haunt Express
- 9:30-11:30AM - Fall Family Fun Day
- 10AM-3PM - Country Market
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 1:30-3:30PM - Jeffco 4-H Open House
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9:30AM-12PM Pancake Breakfast @ The Fairgrounds
Before you hit the Whale of a Used Book Sale, enjoy a pancake breakfast, hosted by the South Jeffco Rotary Club.
Location:
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
15200 West Sixth Avenue (map)
10AM-3PM Country Market @ Golden Hayride Outpost
Join us for another season of the weekly Country Market at Golden Outpost on Sundays, June through October!
The weekly Country Market features locally grown produce, cottage law food products, and local craft artisans. They have a full bar with indoor and outdoor seating, so you can enjoy a meal and relax with a beverage while shopping the amazing vendors and delicious produce at the Country Market. More information
Location:
Golden Hayride Outpost
17695 South Golden Road (Map)
10AM-2PM Harvest Haunt Express @ The Railroad Museum
The Colorado Railroad Museum’s annual Halloween-themed steam-up event is back! Grounds are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with activities taking place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., including train rides. Guests are encouraged to come in costume for Trick-or-Treating!
Enjoy the Olde Railroaders Silly Graveyard, “not-so-spooky” Haunted Railcars and a hay bale maze. Bring your camera, and get a great picture of your group’s costumes in front of the Pumpkin Patch cart. Tasty treats and lunchtime food options will be available for purchase.
An authentic, coal burning Colorado steam locomotive will pull trains for this event. Regular admission and train ride pricing applies. Learn more.
All Aboard!
Location:
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (map)
The Golden Word - 10/19/25
11AM-3PM Bag Day at the Whale of a Used Book Sale
Colorado's biggest used book sale is back at the Jeffco Fairgrounds. Adult hardbacks & paperbacks, children's books, DVDs, CDs, movies, fiction, nonfiction, and special antique books at super low prices
Today is Bag Day– a bag of books starting at $10 all day! Excludes Berts Weathered and Treasured and gift baskets.
For more information call 303-403-5076, email friends@jeffcolibrary.org, or visit us on the web. Proceeds benefit children and teen literacy programs.
Location:
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
15200 West Sixth Avenue (Map)
1:30-3:30PM Jeffco 4-H Open House @ The Fairgrounds
Photo courtesy of Jeffco 4H
This is your chance to explore how your child can get involved with 4-H! Through 4-H, youth can explore interests, make friends, and grow through hands-on learning—all while building life skills they’ll carry into adulthood. At the Open House, families will have the opportunity to meet club leaders, view project demonstrations, and pick up schedules and enrollment information, all in one convenient location. The Jeffco 4-H team will also be there to help answer any questions!
Can’t make it? You can still learn how your family can get involved by filling out our interest form or contacting Jeffco’s 4-H Program Coordinator, Christine Jacquot (303-271-6633).
Location:
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
15200 West Sixth Avenue (map)
No Kings Protest Photos
My Friend Marge had knee replacement surgery two weeks ago, but managed to participate in the protest waving HER sign while seated in a convertible (center frame)
Golden had an impressive turnout for yesterday's No Kings march. The crowd was both bigger and younger than the one we saw in June. I heard estimates ranging from 2200-2500. Unfortunately, I had a camera malfunction, so these pictures won't enlarge much, but they'll give you a taste of the event.
Signs of the Times
Photos by Chris Davell
Fortunately, Chris Davell had no technical difficulties and got a nice collection of sign photos!
Live Music for Sunday, Oct. 19th
- 11AM-3PM Gabriel Rose @ Golden Outpost
- 4:30-7:30PM Rob Wivchar @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- More Live Music
4-7PM Chuck Grossman @ Columbine Cafe
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: The 1878 Willits Map
1878 Willits Map of Golden Colorado – Redrawn by Dan Abbott
Click to enlarge
One of my favorite research tools is the 1878 Willits Map of Golden. It provides incredible detail about exactly what was here in that year. Check out this piece of downtown:
I knew that Dan Abbott (author of Colorado Central Railroad) had redrawn it from the original, but I had not known what inspired him to do that–so I asked! Here’s Dan’s story:
Back in the mid-1980s, both Francis Rizzari and Dick Ronzio were at the age of not driving at night anymore, so they appointed me to chauffeur them to the monthly Denver Westerners meeting.
In the course of these monthly outings Dick mentioned that he had an old Golden map he would like to have redrawn, and as he knew that I had done some of this kind of work previously, he commissioned me to redraw this particular historic item relating to Golden’s history.
I went to his house one day soon after this, and took charge of this original map to be redrawn. It was an original linen map in colored ink, which had been glued to a 24” x 36” piece of plywood with a Plexiglas sheet covering the front. The original linen had been folded in half and was a bear to decipher any detail around this fold.
It took approximately 120 hours to redraw this at its original size. When completed around the first of April in 1987, Dick took my original drawing and had it reduced to 18” x 22” and gave me a copy, which I in turn had about 100 copies made and sold these for a number of years thereafter.
Dan Abbott
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 40. West wind around 7 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. High near 76, with temperatures falling to around 72 in the afternoon. West southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Low around 50, with temperatures rising to around 52 overnight. Southwest wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 50°F
Monday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Sunny, 62°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 38°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 66°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 42°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 68°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Thursday: Chance Rain Showers, 62°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 42°F
Friday: Sunny, 65°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 44°F
Saturday: Sunny, 70°F
News About Golden - October 19, 2025
Golden’s summertime tubing traffic down 6% from 2024
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
For those who visited Golden’s section of Clear Creek this summer and thought there weren’t as many tubers as usual, they weren’t entirely wrong.
The City of Golden recently confirmed 2025 tubing traffic was down 6% overall from 2024... Read more...
Colorado Mines football runs wild in blowout win over Adams State
By Matt Schubert
Denver Post
The Colorado School of Mines football program of recent vintage returned to Golden on Saturday afternoon... Read more...
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Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Vicki Olson, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, and Mary Rains, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Mary Eiberger, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, and Wendy Weiman
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