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Lyons Redstone Museum
Local history in the 1881 sandstone schoolhouse, run by the Lyons Historical Society since 1979. Free; open in the summer season.
The 1881 town school, a two-storey block of rusticated sandstone on High Street, has been the town museum since 1979. Inside are the quarry days, the railroad, the floods and the families, a research library and a gift shop. Admission is free; it opens for the summer season and closes at the end of September.
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- Explore Lyons: five places in walking order
Park once beside Sandstone Park, walk the six sandstone blocks of Main Street, eat, then follow the river path to LaVern M. Johnson Park. Hall Ranch is the add-on for a longer day, a mile west by car and without the dog.
- Lyons with kids: the river park, the library, soft-serve and a bike park
A summer day and a winter one in Lyons with children: where to tube, where to splash, where the storytimes are, and where to eat in wet shoes.
- Lyons history: sandstone, the railroad and the river
A quarry town at the mouth of two canyons, built of the rock it dug, cut off by its river once a century, and rebuilt each time by the people who live here. The short history, with each claim resting on a source.
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