Burke

The street was as tight as the hotel. Burke's only street carried the railroad too, and shopkeepers were said to roll up their awnings to let trains pass. The town reached its peak of about 1,400 people in 1910, the same year that February avalanches wiped out neighboring Mace and struck Burke, killing at least twenty people in the canyon. A fire in 1923 burned much of the lower town, and what was rebuilt stood back from the tracks. Hecla's Star mine, the canyon's last, closed in 1991 and reopened in 2012.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 6.5 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 10 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.

More markers nearby

• Levi and May Hutton — steps away
• Mining Wars — 1.6 mi
• Wallace — 5.7 mi
• Willow Creek Slide — 5.8 mi