Hidden bars & speakeasies in Durango
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Durango? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Columbine Bar & Grill, Creations from Mufflers, Lost Goat Tavern (formerly Billy Goat Saloon) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Durango they'd never find on their own.
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Columbine Bar & Grill
The sign inside says 1903; the plaque outside insists 1910. Either way, Mancos kids were once told to cross G…
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Creations from Mufflers
Three miles north of Cortez, a dirt-road corner becomes a town of white-painted metal people — Floyd has been…
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Lost Goat Tavern (formerly Billy Goat Saloon)
Gem Village is a 1940s rockhound settlement, and its anchor since 1958 has been the highway bar everyone just…
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Mayday & La Plata City Ghost Towns (La Plata Canyon)
Five miles up La Plata Canyon Road the pavement quits, and the gold camps begin. Mayday’s white-and-red saloo…
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Ouray Alchemist Museum
Curtis Haggar spent fifty years assembling Colorado's largest pharmacy museum, then installed it behind a Mai…
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The Bookcase and Barber
By day it is a working barbershop in the space that housed The Bookcase, Durango's indie bookstore since 1981…
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Lone Cone Saloon
The Lone Cone Saloon occupies a building that has stood on Norwood's Grand Avenue since 1889, but the real dr…