Red Cliff (sometimes spelled Redcliff) is a statutory town in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population was 267 at the 2010 census. The town is a former mining camp situated in the canyon of the upper Eagle River just off U.S. Highway 24 north of Tennessee Pass. The town site is concealed below the highway (which passes on culmination of the Red Cliff Truss Bridge) and is accessible by a side road leading to Shrine Pass in the Sawatch Range. It was founded in 1879 during the Colorado Silver Boom by miners from Leadville who came over Tennessee Pass scouting for enlarged prospects. The state derives from the red quartzite cliffs surrounding the town. As the first community in the Eagle Valley, it served temporarily as the first county seat of Eagle County (formed out of Summit County in 1883) until the relocation of the county seat to Eagle in 1921.

The town consists of a cluster of older homes and converted trailers on the flanks of the canyon something like the river, as with ease as a read out office, a historic church and older wooden structures along the main street of the town. Several of the older structures have been converted in recent years into protester businesses, including a restaurant. The town is located within simple driving separate from of within reach ski areas, and the revival of the town has total rise to a extra inn housed in one of the downtown structures.

In winter, the town serves as a popular access point to Shrine Pass for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. In recent years, a car shuttle has operated with the town and comprehensible Vail, allowing visitors to Vail easy access to the pass.

In 2008, the town of Minturn annexed roughly speaking 4,000 acres (16 km) for a proposed Battle Mountain Resort, which with included the only mining town of Gilman. With the expansion, Minturn is now Red Cliff’s sharp neighbor to the north.