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santa fe trail
13 Porch Notes tagged “santa fe trail,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Baca County
You can still find Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts in southern Baca County
The Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail crossed about 14 miles of southern Baca County, and on the Carrizo Unit grassland you can still walk out to faint wagon ruts and old markers.
Read note ->History and culture - Otero County
Bent's Old Fort tells the Santa Fe Trail story near La Junta
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta is a reconstructed 1800s trading post on the Santa Fe Trail and a careful place to learn the valley's layered history.
Read note ->History and culture - Pueblo County
Pueblo began as a trading post on the old border
The city's name and origin trace to El Pueblo, an adobe trading post built in 1842 on the Arkansas River when it was the U.S.-Mexico border, now told at the El Pueblo History Museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
Big Timbers and Bent's New Fort: history near Lamar
The Arkansas River near Lamar was once a cottonwood grove called Big Timbers, the site of Bent's New Fort and a meeting ground rich with deep history.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Bent County
The Red Shin Trail loops the quiet side of John Martin Reservoir
The Red Shin Trail at John Martin Reservoir State Park is a named loop below the dam and around Lake Hasty that ties together prairie, wetland, and a Santa Fe Trail marker.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Otero County
A Santa Fe Trail Drive Through Otero County's Plains Towns
Trace the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic Byway through Otero County, linking Bent's Old Fort, the Sierra Vista overlook, the Otero Museum, and La Junta's old downtown in one easy day by car.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
Big Timbers Museum gathers the Prowers County story
A mile north of Lamar on US 50, the Prowers County Historical Society's museum pulls Santa Fe Trail, Dust Bowl, and military history into one low-cost indoor stop.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
Boggsville sits where the Santa Fe Trail met the river bottom
Boggsville, near Las Animas, is a preserved 1860s settlement on the Santa Fe Trail that helps explain why people first put down roots along the rivers in Bent County.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
The Madonna of the Trail stands in Lamar
In Lamar, the Madonna of the Trail statue marks the Santa Fe Trail's story and sits near a welcome center where you can learn the area's history.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Otero County
You can walk the Santa Fe Trail to Sierra Vista Overlook near Timpas
A marked section of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail runs from the Timpas area to Sierra Vista Overlook in the Comanche National Grassland, letting you walk the old route on foot.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Prowers County
Driving US 50 through Prowers County follows the Santa Fe Trail
The highway through Lamar and Granada is part of the Santa Fe Trail Scenic and Historic Byway, a driving route that traces an old wagon road across the plains.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
The county's name comes from a trading fort on the Arkansas
Bent County is named for the Bent family, whose adobe trading post on the Santa Fe Trail along the Arkansas River was a meeting place for traders and Plains tribes.
Read note ->History and culture - Las Animas County
Raton Pass was once crossed by a private toll road run by 'Uncle Dick' Wootton
The famous crossing south of Trinidad once charged a fee, after frontiersman Richens 'Uncle Dick' Wootton built and operated a toll road over Raton Pass in the 1860s.
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