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Fort Garland is referred to as the "Gateway to the San Luis Valley", as it is the first town one encounters when traveling west having crossed over La Veta Pass in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Fort Garland is home to many artists, painters, crafters and internationally known musicians.
Twenty-five miles east of Alamosa, the town of Fort Garland is home to a namesake historical fort built in 1858 to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley. Learn more at the Fort Garland Museum.
Fort Garland, Colorado. Situated at 7,936 feet, Fort Garland is called the “Gateway to the San Luis Valley” because it’s the first town you come to after La Veta Pass on Highway 160. It sits at the eastern border of the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado.
Fort Garland was built in 1858, ten years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, during American expansion into the west. Today, visitors can explore life in a nineteenth century military fort by walking the parade grounds and touring five of the original adobe buildings.
Fort Garland (1858–1883), Colorado, United States, was designed to house two companies of soldiers to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley, then in the Territory of New Mexico (1850-1912). It was named for General John Garland (1793-1861), then commander of the United States Army's Military District of New Mexico. [3]
The US Army operated Fort Garland in the San Luis Valley for twenty-five years, from 1858 to 1883. The fort was built to protect early settlers from Native American raids in the years before treaties, reservations, and removal made that mission obsolete.
Fort Garland is important for its association with the settlement of the San Luis Valley and southern Colorado. Built in 1858, the fort served as a base of military operations until it was abandoned in 1883.
Fort Garland, Colorado. Written By: Lieutenant Colonel Clayton R. Newell, USA-Ret. In June 1852, Major George A. H. Blake, 1st Dragoons, established Fort Massachusetts in northern New Mexico Territory, which today is part of Colorado.
Named a finalist for the 2023 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center allows visitors to explore life in a 19th century military fort by walking the parade grounds and touring original adobe buildings.
Address: 29477 CO-159, Fort Garland, CO 81133. Phone: 719-379-3512. Season: Year-round. Website: historycolorado.org/fort-garland-museum-cultural-center. The Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center is situated in the historical nineteenth-century Fort Garland.