Linwood Cemetery is a mountain cemetery located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The hike is a steep one up the side of a mountain, but the final destination and the gorgeous views of the surrounding mountains and town are totally worth the effort. Dogs are allowed on leash on the hike and at the cemetery, although we did run into some people who didn’t seem to take the request to leash to heart. However, is is well-advised to keep dogs leashed even if well-behaved, because there are also mountain lions known to frequent the area.
John Henry “Doc” Holliday is the most well-known person buried in Linwood Cemetery. Doc Holliday was an American gambler, gunslinger, and dentist, infamous for being involved in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona along with Wyatt Earp. Doc suffered from tuberculosis and spent the last few years of his life in Colorado, where he passed away on November 8, 1887 at the age of 36.
Harvey Alexander Logan, known as Kid Curry is another infamous Old West outlaw and gunman buried in the cemetery. He rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Wild Bunch. While on the run from a posse on June 17, 1904, Kid was shot, wounded and decided to shoot himself in the head to commit suicide in order to avoid capture.
