Spooky Ride - 1 🟩🟩🟩

All green trails. Route includes 2 crossings of Rampart Range Rd. Spooky Stop:

👻2 - Sunset Point TH

Devil’s Head Tower Fire Lookout to the south was built in 1912. The first ever female firefighter Helen Rowe worked here from 1919-1921 and reported 16 fires during her tenure. The tower is accessible by hike only.

Legend has it that somewhere between the town of Deckers and Devil’s Head Tower, there is a fortune hidden in the woods. In the early 1870s, train robbers stopped a train on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Deckers and made off with $60,000 worth of gold. When the pursuing posse got too close, the bandits buried the gold near Devil’s Head, marking a tree to remind them of the spot. Unfortunately for the robbers, a forest fire swept the area and removed all traces of their marked tree. Imagine what $60,000 in 1870s gold would be worth today.

On April 29, 1981, the Reverand Maurice Gordon “Doc” Dametz and author of “Dead at the Top” and “Trouble Transformed,” was hunting topaz near Devil’s Head with a supposed friend when he suddenly and mysteriously disappeared along with all of his tools. The Sheriff and Douglas County Search and Rescue with search dogs were never able to find any trace of him.

In 1960, Adolf Coors III was kidnapped and murdered in a failed ransom attempt. His body was found in a pit near the Brotherhood of the White Temple, due east of Dutch Fred. The murderer was convicted in part because of the tell-tale felspar and decomposed granite of the Rampart area that was found on the undercarriage of his car. Coors’ father, Adolf Coors II, had also been kidnapped in 1934 by prohibitionists for a ransom of $50,000 and survived the ordeal.