That process involved a public comment period on the proposal to remove the structure for safety reasons and required consultation with Colorado’s State Historic Preservation Office, he said.įorest Service officials claim that they consulted adequately with the State Historic Preservation Office. The cabin, Bianchi said, posed a potential liability for the Forest Service, leading officials in 2020 to begin the National Environmental Policy Act process required to partially demolish the structure. It’s a challenge to keep people from not living in there.” “We’ve had a lot of problems over the years with the Rainbow cabin specifically because it’s up Keystone Gulch close to the (ski) resort,” Dillon Ranger District Ranger Adam Bianchi explained. Forest Service removed the roof and walls of the cabin, leaving little more than a foundation where the building once stood. Through the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, visitors installed new windows, a woodfire stove and hung a Colorado state flag on the wall. When the 12-by-18 foot structure was first built in the early 1900s, it housed miners who would crawl into tight tunnels built into the hillside in search of gold, silver and other precious ores.Ībandoned for decades, the Rainbow Mine cabin captured the imagination of at least a few of the hikers who stumbled upon it in the forest. For more than 100 years, a small cabin stood on a steep, tree-covered mountainside in Keystone Gulch.
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