Leadville is a place with a proud history, and this week, the town nabbed a title as one of USA Today’s Best Historic Small Towns. Leadville ranked no. 10 in the 2020 list of USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Award Contest. The newspaper’s editors and other travel experts assembled a list of 20 nominees for each category, and the public voted online in June. “History is alive and well in Leadville, a former Colorado mining town,” USA Today wrote in the article.