While everyone else heads to Janet's and Francie's cabins in the Summit system, hardcore hikers and cross-country skiers make a six-mile beeline to well above treeline at Section House, a renovated 1882 building that sleeps twelve and overlooks South Park and Breckenridge on Boreas Pass at 11,481 feet. The road is closed to this winter-only lodging — which sits well past the also-intimate Ken's Cabin — adding to the isolation and stone-cold quiet, and if the altitude doesn't get you, the views of the Continental Divide from the no-frills historic cabin will take your breath away. Pretend you're one of the railroaders who lived in this old mining town by firing up the wood oven and reliving the days of the pit-toilet outhouse.
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