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A historical marker memorializing the trail, located on County Road 520 in Huerfano County, Colorado. The Taos Mountain Trail was the historic pathway for trade and business exchanges between agrarian Taos and the Great Plains from pre-history (1100 A.D.) through the Spanish Colonial period and into the time of the European and American presence.
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano ...
Taos Ski Valley lies just to the west of Wheeler Peak. Much of the central portion of the Taos Mountains are on Taos Pueblo land. As viewed from Taos, they are locally called "Taos Mountain." 7 Bushnell Peak [9] Sangre de Cristo Range: 13,111 ft 3996 m: 2,405 ft 733 m: 11.07 mi 17.82 km 8 Truchas Peak [10] Santa Fe Mountains: 13,107 ft 3995 m ...
The trail starts at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, which is located along the North Platte River. [1] [5] The trail follows Crow Creek to the Latham, Colorado area, where it traversed along the South Platte River. [2] Traveling along the river, four trading posts were built in the late 1830s and are located and are part of the South Platte Trail.
Guadaloupe County was the first Colorado county to be renamed after only six days in 1861. 8. Las Animas County was the first new Colorado county to be created (in 1866) after the original 17 counties. 9. Greenwood County was the longest lived former Colorado county, existing four years from 1870 to 1874. 10.
In 1851, ten Hispanic settlers from Taos, New Mexico established the town of San Luis on the banks of the Rio Culebra in the Sangre de Cristo Grant. San Luis was the first permanent settlement in Colorado. In 1852, the settlers began digging what became known as the San Luis People's Ditch to irrigate farmland with the water of the Rio Culebra. [6]
San Antonio Mountain is one of several volcanic peaks within the 7000 square kilometer Taos Plateau volcanic field, a region of volcanic activity within the Rio Grande rift valley. Other nearby peaks include Ute Mountain (10,082 feet), Cerro de la Olla (9,475 feet), Cerro del Aire (9,023 feet), and Cerro Montoso (8,655 feet).
The remote mountain is situated 35 miles north of the town of Taos and four miles south of the New Mexico–Colorado border. Ute Mountain is a free-standing, dacitic, extinct Pliocene volcanic cone set within the Taos Plateau volcanic field. [8]