Pueblo County
Pueblo County The Pueblo County Courthouse The city of Pueblo developed on the site of trading posts established in the 1830s and ‘40s, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it became the industrial center of the American West. The modern city of Pueblo took shape between 1872 and 1894, through the gradual […]
Prowers County
Prowers County Prowers County Courthouse in Lamar Prowers County was formed in 1889. In the late 19th century, the arrival of railroads led to the development of agriculture and towns and in the 20th century, the county became an important center of the sugar beet industry. Today, Prowers County continues to be one of the […]
Otero County
Otero County Bent’s Fort Otero County is home to the Comanche National Grassland, where you can explore petroglyphs, abundant wildlife, and the Purgatoire River track site – the largest dinosaur-track site in North America. Other areas of interest in the county include Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site – a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur-trading post […]
Las Animas
Las Animas Fisher’s Peak New Trinidad, CO With a population of nearly 15,000 residents, Las Animas County is the largest county in area in Colorado. By the early 20th century, the coal mines in the area were among the most productive in the nation. Historically, the county was the site of the Ludlow Massacre, a […]
Lake County
Lake County Great Living at 10,200 feet! Lake County was one of the original 17 counties created by the Colorado legislature in 1861. The county was named for Twin Lakes. The county seat and the only municipality is Leadville and the highest natural point in Colorado and the entire Rocky Mountains is the summit of […]
Kiowa County
Kiowa County Kiowa County is the fifth-least populous county in Colorado, the county seat is Eads. In the late 1800’s, eastern Colorado attracted significant attention by farming interests, not knowing that long-term agriculture was unsustainable in the landscape. The railroads were moving across the plains of the west toward the gold fields of the Rocky […]
Huerfano County
Huerfano County Huerfano County The county’s tourism board brands Huerfano County as “Southern Colorado’s Spanish Peaks Country”. The county offers many mountain-related activities such as mountain climbing, hiking, hunting and sightseeing. The county also boasts the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Range, a range that includes several “fourteeners”. The area boomed in the early […]
Fremont
Fremont County The Royal Gorge Bridge in Canon City, CO Fremont County’s scenic canyons and attractive climate make it a great place to live for its nearly 50,000 residents. The county is named for 19th century explorer and presidential candidate, John C. Fremont. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the land and left behind fossils […]
Crowley County
Crowley County The Crowley County Justice Center in Ordway. Crowley County was created by the Colorado Legislature in 1911. The county was named for John H. Crowley, a Senator from Otero County to the state legislature when portions of Otero and Bent Counties were split to form Crowley County. The county seat is Ordway. The […]
Custer County
Custer County Scenery that Takes Your Breath Away Custer County was created in 1877 and named in honor of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The County was the site of a silver rush in the 1870’s and was home to many notable mines including the Geyser Mine, the Bassick Mine and the Bull Domingo. During […]