5.7 mi. NW of Uravan on CO 141, Uravan, Colorado. County/parish: Montrose.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 15, 1980. NRIS 80000917.
1 contributing structure.
The Hanging Flume was an open water chute (known as a flume) built over the Dolores River Canyon in Colorado. The Montrose Placer Mining Company built the flume in the 1880s to facilitate gold mining. Some sections of the flume remain attached to the canyon wall, although much of the wood has vanished.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84132031