The small community of Virginia Dale can be found near Highway 287, just south of the Wyoming border. The town boasted a stage stop on the Overland Stage Line, and the old stage station still survives today. The building is being restored by the Virginia Dale Community Club, and club members also provide tours to many school children in the area.

The stage station was built by Jack Slade in 1862 in a beautiful setting among granite outcroppings. He named the station for his wife and served as the first station agent.

Slade was one of the most notorious characters in northern Colorado history, having not only a serious drinking problem but a problem with the law as well. Legend has it that he was in cahoots with local road agents who robbed stages of their valuable cargoes of gold.

Virginia Dale is also known for its little country church, a white building dating from 1880 that sits proudly on a knoll overlooking the foothills. The church is known for keeping its door always open as a refuge for stranded travelers or others in need of shelter.

The post office in Virginia Dale was opened briefly in 1868, then again from 1871 to 1967.

Recently, Virginia Dale acquired a new group of residents: the Abbey of St. Walburga, a Benedictine order of nuns who previously lived near Boulder.