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Photograph of Winks Panorama
Photograph by Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Winks Panorama (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Winks Panorama, also known as Winks Lodge, was a hotel near Pinecliffe, Colorado catering to African-American tourists during the early and middle 20th century. The lodge was built in the Lincoln Hills Country Club, which was at the time the only African-American resort in the western United States.”

Wikipedia article Winks Panorama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gilpin County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 213 Winks Way, Pinecliffe, 80422
  • When was it listed? October 2014
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Central City
  • National Register reference number. 13001035 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Winks Panorama (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined161
Recreation and ceremony59
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland925A
7 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland355C
6 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 182 workings within 5 miles of Winks Panorama (Boundary Increase): 129 past producers, 30 occurrences, 16 producers, 3 prospects. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big MoonGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, DeadwoodGold, TungstenOccurrenceGold
Champion, Lone StarGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Clark TunnelTungsten, Silver, GoldUnknown
Cougar, GreybackMolybdenum, TungstenOccurrenceMolybdenite
Ellis LodeGold, Garnet, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
FairheavenEmery, SilverPast Producer
Golder-Passarella ClaimsUraniumProspect
Iowa Girl LodeGold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Lucky Strike, Last NickelTungsten, Lead, ZincProducerFerberite, Galena

Every working recorded in Gilpin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Winks Panoramaunder 500 feet
Bain Cabin1.9 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13001035 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gilpin CountyAll 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.