Ward, CO

Ward is a home rule municipality in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 128 residents. The town is a former mining settlement founded in 1860 in the wake of the discovery of gold at nearby Gold Hill. Once one of the richest towns in the state during the Colorado Gold Rush, it is located on a mountainside at the top of Left Hand Canyon, near the Peak to Peak Highway northwest of Boulder at an elevation of 9,450 feet above sea level. In Ward, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Ward, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. The town was named for Calvin Ward, who prospected a claim in 1860 on the site known as Miser's Dream. The town boomed the following year with the discovery by Cyrus W.