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Visiting Bent’s Old Fort
“At a distance it presents a handsome appearance, being castle-like with towers at its angles…the design…answering all purposes of protection, defense, and as a residence.” ~ George R. Gibson, 1846, soldier The last stop on our southeastern Colorado daytrip was the National Historic Site of Bent’s Old Fort. Sitting on the north side of the […]
Touring Junkrassic Park
Bob Pearce, my daytrip buddy, somehow found out about this place called Junkrassic Park, which sits just a bit northeast of Bent’s Old Fort on County Road JJ in Cheraw, Colorado. It’s Johnnie Allen’s private residence, but it’s also a place of bizarre wonder that is definitely worth seeing. It’s not only entertaining and intriguing, […]
Visiting a Town on the Santa Fe Trail
“Now the Santa Fe Trail belongs to the keening wind. It belongs to summer rains and to the fearful snows of winter. It is owned by the prairie dog, the jackrabbit, the rattlesnake… And for a brief interval it is mine, by adoption, since I choose to stake my claim on a tiny fragment of […]
Learning About the Sand Creek Massacre
“Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” – Indian Proverb, posted at Sand Creek The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is about a three hours […]
Hiking Mueller State Park
Mueller State Park, just south of Divide, Colorado, is my new favorite spot in Colorado. For a very long time that spot was held by Rocky Mountain National Park, but in my visit yesterdaythe beauty of Mueller trumped it. My only disappointment is that we only had a limited period of time to visit the […]
Hiking the Florissant Fossil Beds
I’ve lived in Colorado for nine years and just today finally went to see the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. I’ve been wanting to go for so long, but just never really took the time to do so until now. I picked up a friend early this morning and we made the two hour drive, […]
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