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spanish-peaks
4 Porch Notes tagged “spanish-peaks,” from counties across Colorado.
Outdoors and wildfire - Las Animas County
West of Aguilar, the Spanish Peaks rise into national forest and wilderness
The high country around the Spanish Peaks is national forest land, with a designated wilderness where motors and bikes are not allowed, so the rules change as you move up the mountain.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Francisco Fort Museum: La Veta grew up around Colorado's last original adobe fort
La Veta's Francisco Fort Museum sits inside an 1862 adobe trading post that the town grew up around, the last original adobe fort still standing in Colorado.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
The Spanish Peaks and their stone dikes are the county's landmark
The twin Spanish Peaks and the long stone walls radiating from them are a well-known geologic feature in Huerfano County, and the Highway of Legends byway runs through the country around them.
Read note ->Water and land - Las Animas County
The stone walls radiating from the Spanish Peaks are famous volcanic dikes
The long rock ridges that fan out from the base of the Spanish Peaks are radial dikes, hardened sheets of igneous rock left when molten material filled cracks and the softer ground around them wore away.
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