Parts of the decades-old reconstructed adobe trading post at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta are failing. That includes some of the cottonwood and pine timbers used as supports ...
OTERO COUNTY, Colorado — A trip to Bent's Old Fort is a trip back in time. The sights, sounds, and smells are all meant to bring guests back to the pioneer days of the American West. The cultural ...
Roughly eight years before Fort Pueblo was established in what is today Downtown Pueblo, traders gathered at what is now Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, approximately 70 miles east along the ...
LA JUNTA, Colo. (KRDO) -- Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site has announced new winter hours. Starting on Tuesday, January 2, the fort will open weekly Friday through Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
I worked in many different positions for the National Park Service, starting with Bent’s Old Fort NHS. I was a seasonal Interpreter, then as a permanent Museum Technician, later as a Museum Curator ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado is more than beautiful mountains, windswept prairies, and arid deserts. It’s the stories of the people who came before us, of the triumphs and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Colorado's "Castle on the Plains" is facing major changes as the National Parks Service deals with challenges caused by ...
OTERO COUNTY, Colorado — Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site in Otero County resumed regular operating hours Sunday. The fort will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. every day for the rest of ...
The irony is inescapable: While The Fort, the Morrison restaurant modeled after Bent’s Old Fort, a mainstay on the Santa Fe Trail from 1833 to 1849, is a historic landmark, the National Park Service ...