Hidden bars & speakeasies in Pueblo
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Pueblo? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Gus' Place, Owl Cigar Store, The Hidden Handle 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 Pueblo they'd never find on their own.
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Gus' Place
The corner building at Elm and Mesa went up as a church in 1892, became Gus Masciotra's grocery in the twenti…
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Owl Cigar Store
Opened in 1903, the Owl has been a pool hall, a gambling den, and a cigar-and-fishing-tackle counter — the to…
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The Hidden Handle
Walk into A Tavola, the Italian restaurant on Highway 50, and find the door that doesn't look like a door — t…
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Uptop Ghost Town
In 1877 the Denver & Rio Grande crested Old La Veta Pass at 9,382 feet — the “Railroad Above the Clouds,” hig…
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The Clink Lounge
From roughly 1940 to 2010, this building processed Pueblo's arrested — now Cell Six's original solitary-confi…