Tales from the Tread: Historic stage wagon gets new home

Tales from the Tread: Historic stage wagon gets new home

An icon of Colorado and Routt County’s early transportation era has a new home. The Tread of Pioneers Museum has completed a capital building project for “The Pilot” — an 1860s horse-drawn stage wagon that once connected the remote Yampa Valley to the Wolcott rail line and beyond from 1888 to 1909. The artifact is now on display in a newly rebuilt, environmentally-controlled exhibit structure next to the Steamboat Chamber at U.S. Highway 40 and …