The only remnants of the city are small parts of a church's walls (in the 1940s, only the roof had collapsed), located in what is now a hayfield to the west of the highway; the jail, located beside a few abandoned residential houses at a road bend; and a couple of fire hydrants.

Soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Carson (Colorado Springs) used to land and subsequently conduct high altitude survival training from there.

Oddly enough, during the time when cattle mutilations were the most prolific in the southwest and near the Cripple Creek area in 1976, a motorist managed to take a picture of an unmarked helicopter (unmarked helicopters were often seen before and after the mutilations) close to the Gillett airstrip.

Due to local topography, Gillette became the rail terminal for Victor, Colorado after a good stage road was built to there.

But Gillett proved too remote from the main mining district to ever attract more than around 300 people, the population in a 1902 report.

[8] The site of Gillett rests in a valley beside a highway near Cripple Creek in Teller County, Colorado, United States.