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South Fork was once the site of timber milling operations. [7]South Fork was founded in 1882, by which date its location was already marked by the presence of a coaching post, dating from the construction of the railroad connection of the Rio Grande Western Railroad line to Creede, which had been built to support the Creede silver mine.
Bent's Old Fort is a fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States.A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes.
South Fork Rio Grande is a tributary of the Rio Grande in southern Colorado in the United States. It flows from a source in the Weminuche Wilderness of the San Juan Mountains to a confluence with the Rio Grande at the town of South Fork in Rio Grande County, Colorado.
The Colorado State Forest Service was established by the Colorado General Assembly in 1955 and oversees response to wildfires in Colorado. [ not verified in body ] Part of the 2002 Colorado wildfires that burned nearly 360,000 acres, the Hayman Fire , was the largest wildfire in Colorado state history for nearly 20 years [ 4 ] [ 5 ] until the ...
The trail split near "Old Wells" (about five miles north of present-day Cheyenne Wells) into north and south forks. The north fork of the trail went northwest from "Old Wells" Station through Deering Wells Station, Big Springs Station, and David Wells Station and eventually to Denver. The south fork was first surveyed in 1860, and again in 1865.
The Spruce Lodge, at 29431 W. US Hwy. 160 in South Fork, Colorado, is a hotel complex whose main original building was built in 1927. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1] The original lodge is a Rustic style 40 by 91 feet (12 m × 28 m) log building with a hipped roof, built upon a concrete basement ...
View to the south into the snaking West Fork of the San Juan River as seen from US 160, halfway up to the pass The tunnel on the east side of the pass, opened in 2005.. Wolf Creek Pass, once a two-lane road winding through the San Juan Mountains between South Fork, Colorado, and Pagosa Springs, has been expanded into a multi-lane highway, greatly increasing the traffic capacity of the pass and ...
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, in northeastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky South Fork, Madera County, California South Fork, Colorado