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See the inspiring castle built entirely by one man. Built stone by stone, this three-story castle, includes towers, grand ballroom, fire-breathing dragon, and bridges featuring unforgettable views.
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Jun 14, 2023 · You've got a patron saint in the form of Jim Bishop, a Colorado man who took more than five decades of his life to build not just a wooden cabin in the woods, but an actual, stone-and-iron castle in the mountains. And most critically, he did it all by himself, by hand.
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Now in its seventh decade, Bishop Castle continues to wow visitors from its perch along Colorado 165 near the small town of Rye, nestled at 9,000 feet in the San Isabel National Forest. By now, its origin storyis the stuff of legend: Bishop says he bought the 2.5-acre plot of land at 15 years old for $450 as a way to escape from Pueblo. Over the ne...
While the castle has become one of Custer County’s most prominent attractions, the builder’s relationship with local officials over the years has been… complicated. Bishop started construction on the castle before the county had zoning laws, said Jackie Hobby, a Custer County planning and zoning official. “We don’t, at this point in time, have any ...
When he’s not working, Jim Bishop likes to sit by the campfire on the site of the not-yet-built gift shop next to the castle with his dog Marley, an excitable brown spaniel. He pulled out old pictures of Phoebe, who died of cancer three years ago. They were married 50 years, and Bishop invokes her name often. He recalled the time Phoebe took a halo...
- Sam Tabachnik
The castle -- containing over over 50,000 tons of rock, concrete, lumber, and steel -- was built by one man, Jim Bishop, a high school dropout and ornamental ironworker from Pueblo, Colorado. Beginning in 1969, and for roughly the next 25 years, the story of the castle centered on Jim and his crazy one-man construction project.
- 12705 CO-165, Rye, CO
Jun 3, 2024 · The stone structure along the San Isabel National Forest known as Bishop Castle started with a 15-year-old, an argument with an English teacher and a heavily wooded plot of land.
Jun 23, 2021 · There were no blueprints or diagrams for the eccentric Bishop Castle in Rye, Colorado. Built by Jim Bishop over the course of 60 years, the monumental structure is the result of his own imagination and lackadaisical building style.
Bishop Castle is an "elaborate and intricate" [1] "one-man project" named after its constructor, Jim Bishop, [2] that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado. [3] The "castle" is located in south central Colorado on State Highway 165 [4] in the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado in the San Isabel National Forest, southwest of ...
