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4 Porch Notes tagged “crestone,” from counties across Colorado.

Outdoors and wildfire - Saguache County

Baca National Wildlife Refuge: quiet wetlands and wildlife below the Sangres

The Baca National Wildlife Refuge sits below the Sangre de Cristo range near Crestone, a quiet spot for wildlife watching where access follows refuge rules worth checking before you go.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Saguache County

The Crestone Group: a wall of serious 14ers above town

A tight cluster of fourteeners rises straight off the valley floor above Crestone, free to admire from town and a real objective for prepared climbers.

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History and culture - Saguache County

The Baca Land Grant No. 4 is older than the county around it

Much of the land around Crestone traces back to a 19th-century land grant to the Baca family, a history now listed on the National Register as a Rural Historic Landscape.

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History and culture - Saguache County

Why Crestone became a center for retreat and spiritual communities

Starting in the 1980s, a foundation gave land near Crestone to many religious groups, and the area now holds a wide range of retreat centers, monasteries, and temples.

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