How do you get into The Fifty-Niner?
We have not confirmed it. The Fifty-Niner is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Fifty-Niner sits
The Fifty-Niner is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists seven speakeasies and hidden bars in Colorado Springs. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Colorado Springs.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Fifty-Niner are The Vault Speakeasy, about 150 m away, Brooklyn’s on Boulder St., about 3.5 km away, and Allusion, about 3.5 km away.
Colorado holds 37 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Colorado speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Colorado
Colorado did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Colorado already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Colorado.
What the newspapers recorded in Colorado
Searching the Library of Congress run of Colorado newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Colorado:
- The Holly chieftain, January 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon, March 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Gilpin observer, March 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Gilpin observer, July 8, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Wednesday, 4pm to 9pm
- Thursday, 3pm to 9pm
- Friday, 5pm to 11pm
- Saturday, 2pm to 11pm
- Sunday, 1pm to 8pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Fifty-Niner by phone on (719) 517-8272, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 2409 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Fifty-Niner we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and opening hours. We do not yet hold a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.