The City of Florence in Fremont County, occupies the very nearly central position in the great state of Colorado. Fremont County contains within its borders mountain peaks approaching the 14,000 mark and the lowest valley in the state. It contains within its borders not only the Royal Gorge, but it contains another of equal, if not greater beauty, the canon of Eight Mile Creek once traversed by the picturesque and beautiful scenic line of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railway and the Gold Belt Tour, well noted for its scenery.