Avoid the I-70 traffic with the Spanish Peaks. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ... You can check out the remaining equipment from a small mining operation near the saddle.

In Southern Colorado, the Spanish Peaks appear as a pair, a “double mountain” of mystical significance to Native peoples. Neither the West nor the East Spanish Peak is a fourteener, yet they ...

“It was a party,” said the full-bearded, 66-year-old resident of this former Colorado mining town perched in the shadows of the Spanish Peaks in Las Animas County.

The Spanish Peaks have long been an important monument for generations of people who have ... 2024 — A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and ...

The Spanish Peaks in Southern Colorado are a piece of the geological puzzle of why the High Plains are so high. By Shanna Lewis · Apr. 9, 2024, 8:27 am. Share: ...

Native Americans, Spanish settlers, and early American pioneers, including those who flooded into the region with the construction of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, have all called La Veta home.

The peaks have always been a bit mysterious. They are as tall as many of the Rocky Mountain summits to the west, but the Spanish Peaks formed at a different time and from completely different rocks.