Tiny Town attracts visitors tall and small

Nowadays, tiny homes are all the rage, but you haven’t seen a real tiny home — or a tiny business or a tiny school or a tiny jail — until you’ve been to Tiny Town.


Tiny Town on South Turkey Creek Road is everything a town should be but in miniature at a scale of between one-sixth and one-twelfth of a full-size building. The attraction has been delighting visitors tall and small since 1915.

Open daily in the summer from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting, Tiny Town attracts families — the little ones can look into the diminutive buildings’ windows, while the adults can look through what amount to skylights. Many of the buildings have dolls, furniture and other items to make them look more realistic.

Tiny Town’s history is filled with bankruptcies, fire and floods — even some that washed away train engines — but through it all, the attraction has returned to life thanks to the efforts of several owners, Christopherson said. It eventually became a nonprofit, and money from its wishing well goes to Brent’s Place for terminally ill children.

The train, which provides attendees with a view of the entire attraction, began in the mid-1940s, and it’s a mainstay of Tiny Town. From the gnomes and dinosaurs to the replicas of Clear Creek County’s Argo and Phoenix mines, visitors have a lot to see while on the train.

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By Deb Hurley Brobst
Tuesday, June 18, 2019