The historic Town of Fairplay is the Statutory Town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census. Fairplay is located in South Park at an height of 9,953 feet (3,034 m). The town is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the State of Colorado. Fairplay is now a allowance of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

A historic gold mining settlement, the town was founded in 1859 during the in front days of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. The town was named by settlers who were catastrophe by the generous mining claims solution to the early prospectors and promised a more equitable system for its residents. The town of Fairplay was incorporated in 1872.

It is the largest community in the grassland basin of Colorado known as South Park, sitting upon the west edge of the basin at the junction of U.S. Highway 285 and State Highway 9. It is upon a hillside just east of the Middle Fork South Platte River, near where Highway 9 ascends the river valley northward to Alma and Hoosier Pass. It is a quiet town, and the roads surrounding it have a low volume of traffic. Although it was founded during the initial placer mining boom, the mines in the Place continued to build gold and silver ore for many decades happening through the middle of the 20th century.

The town consists of unbiased retail businesses along the highway, as well as a historic town on the bluff above the river along Front Street. The northern increase of Front Street along the river has been preserved and has become the site of relocated historic structures as an open-air museum called South Park City, intended to recreate the beforehand days of the Colorado Gold Rush. Most of the residences in town are located upon the hillside west of US Highway 285 and east of State Highway 9, in the vicinity of the schools and Park County Courthouse. The majority of the streets in town were finally paved in 2005.