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Guffey, Colorado

11/18/2012

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26 miles south of Hartsel via Colorado 9, www.guffeycolorado.com

The extra mileage off the beaten path is a small price to pay to check out Guffey (pop. 30) for an hour or two. Bill Soux, the proprietor of the Guffey Garage, Last Chance Antiques, and several rental cabins in town, is also a mad artist. His masterpieces: the exterior of the Guffey Garage (which looks like a cross between a Wild West barroom, Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, and a psychedelic vision) and across the street the ominous “Prison Wagon,” a mannequin jailbird in a cell atop a wagon pulled by the skeletal remains of two horses and driven by a human skeleton. Soux’s cabins are also funky and historic, and cheap ($35 to $55 for two) and his imagination runs wild, in all sorts of directions. He is the proud owner of Guffey’s mayor, a black cat named Monster who is the latest in a long line of pets to pull the strings in town, and the mastermind behind the annual Fourth of July Chicken Fly, where kids with plungers goad chickens from a mailbox and see how far they fly before touching down. The record is 60 feet.

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