Buckskin Joe is an extinct gold mining town located in Park County, Colorado, United States.

By 1861, when the Laurette/Buckskin Joe Post Office opened, in the newly formed Colorado Territory, the town boasted two hotels, fourteen stores, and a bank.

[5] At its peak, the town was credited with a population of 5,000, but historian Robert L. Brown considers this number far too large.

By 1866, the town was reported to be deserted, and the courthouse building was moved down the valley to the new county seat of Fairplay.

In the late 1950s, Horace Tabor's general store was dismantled, hauled away, and reassembled at the tourist attraction and movie set also called Buckskin Joe, 70 miles (110 km) away from the original site.