Tarryall Diggings

Late arrivals turned away from these diggings in 1859 called the camp Graball, and some went off to found Fair Play on the promise of the name. Tarryall became Park County's first seat in 1861 but soon lost it to Buckskin Joe, and both its towns are gone. The Tarryall on today's maps, with its reservoir and creek road, is elsewhere in the county; these diggings lay north of present Como, on the first gold strike in South Park.

What the plaque says

This memorial is the property of the State of Colorado Extending up this creek to the mountains were the Tarryall Diggings discovered in July, 1859. Towns of Hamilton and Tarryall (2 miles west) thrived in 1860s. A newspaper and numerous business houses flourished. The towns have long since disappeared. Large trees now grow in the sluice tailings on the bluff ½ mile west. The diggings have produced $2,000,000 in gold. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado from the Mrs. J. N. Hall Foundation and by Foster Cline 1933

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• South Park City Museum — 10 mi
  A mining town assembled in the 1950s from buildings hauled out of South Park's dying camps, by a Colorado Springs lawyer who wanted no imitation town.
• Mount Blue Sky — 21 mi
  Rosalie for a painter, Evans for a governor, and since 2023 a name the Cheyenne and Arapaho asked for, at the top of North America's highest paved road.

More markers nearby

• South Park — 7.8 mi
• Fairplay — 10 mi
• Hoosier Pass — 11 mi
• Fremont Pass — 17 mi