US 350 from La Junta to Trinidad has very faint traces of the Santa Fe Trail and lots of ghost towns. I found this short page that talks about all the ghost towns we saw and a few more: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gtusa/usa/co/us350.htm
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| It's looking at the camera. |
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| Timpas |
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| Timpas |
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| Timpas School |
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| Timpas School |
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| "What are you doing here?" |
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| Santa Fe trail is right here, but really hard to see. |
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| You can just make it out near the middle between the two posts. |
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| Near the middle |
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| Bloom - no standing structures left, this was the closest. |
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| The Delhi store |
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| Technically you could still use this outhouse. |
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| They seem to have left everything behind - maybe late 80's? |
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| Guessing this was the store part. |
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| Barn Swallow babies |
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| Why would you just leave all your belongings? |
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| I wonder if it was the Christmas season when they left? |
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| Thatcher |
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| Thatcher School |
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| Spanish Peaks |
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| Tyrone |
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| Tyrone |
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| Tyrone - old bar? Cool ceilings |
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| Tyrone - can't read it anymore |
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| Tyrone |
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| US 350 is very quiet unless you're very close to La Junta or Trinidad |
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| To the West |
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| Cassin's Kingbird |
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| Semi-random roadside point of interest - had one plaque about the Santa Fe Trail, one about this, one about Bent's Ranch. Near the Pinyon Canyon Military Reservation. More info on the crash: http://www.santafetrailscenicandhistoricbyway.org/b24.html |
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| Double rainbow on the way home |
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