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The La Garita Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the La Garita Mountains of southern Colorado. The 129,626-acre (524.58 km 2 ) wilderness established in 1964 in Gunnison and Rio Grande National Forests includes segments of the Colorado Trail and the Continental Divide Trail .
The La Garita Mountains extend from near the town of Creede east and northeast over 30 miles (48 km) toward the San Luis Valley. The range is marked by a circuitous ridge with the westernnmost peak being Phoenix Peak (elevation 13,895 feet (4,235 m)) near the Continental Divide and the easternmost peak being Lookout Mountain (elevation 11,516 ...
February 8, 1980 (Northwest of La Garita: La Garita: 3: Carnero Creek Pictographs: Carnero Creek Pictographs: June 5, 1975 (Address Restricted: La Garita: 4: Crestone School
La Garita is an unincorporated community in Saguache County, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [1] History. A post office called La Garita operated intermittently from ...
The geologic area is now part of the La Garita Wilderness. [4] Lying just below the crest of the range at an elevation of 11,960 feet (3645 m), it can be reached by an 8.4-mile hike on the East Bellows Trail ( FS 790), or by a difficult 14 mile four-wheel drive road.
The La Garita Caldera is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada from 40 to 18 million years ago, and was the site of massive eruptions about 28.01 ± 0.04 million years ago, during the Oligocene Epoch.
Halfmoon Pass, elevation 12,523 ft (3,817 m), is a mountain pass at the East end of the La Garita Mountain Range that forms the boundary between Mineral and Saguache counties. The pass separates the Saquache Creek and West Bellows Creek watersheds in the La Garita Mountains of Colorado. Both creeks are part of the Rio Grande watershed.
Blue Mesa Reservoir from the air. Created by the construction of Blue Mesa Dam in 1966, Blue Mesa Reservoir is Colorado's largest body of water. Fed by the Lake Fork Arm of the Gunnison River, Soap Creek, and Cebolla Creek, the long, broad lake is 20 miles (32 km) long, has 96 miles (154 km) of shoreline, and is the largest Lake Trout and Kokanee salmon fishery in the United States.