Royal Gorge Chamber Alliance honors the past, celebrates the future with Gateway Depot & Plaza

Royal Gorge Chamber Alliance honors the past, celebrates the future with Gateway Depot & Plaza

Gen. William J. Palmer had a vision of creating economic opportunity by connecting communities via his Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. One of those communities was Cañon City. The local businesspeople convinced him to build a train station, which would later become the 1909 Denver & Rio Grande train station, located at the intersection of U.S. 50 and Colo. 115. Nearly 115 years later, another man saw a vision connecting communities through the his…