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Montville Nature Trail
The federally designated Wilderness Areas wit...
National Historic Landmark- Trujillo Homestead / Zapata Ranch
After the United States annexed Mexico’s n...
San Luis Valley
The oldest evidence of humans in the area dat...
Dunefield Overlook
Great Sand Dunes have been continually formin...
Upper and Lower Dogwood Trails
Walking paths have long been a part of Hot Springs Nationa...
Hot Springs Railroad
A narrow-gauge railroad line from Malvern to Hot Springs k...
Hale’s Hot Cave
In the fall of 1897, a petition from four bathhouse owners...
Gulpha Gorge
The earliest visitors who came to thehot springs to &ldquo...
Arlington Hotel
In1874, Samuel W. Fordyce and other investors fina...
Crystal and Pythian Bathhouses
Little is known about African American bathing services du...
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Montville Nature Trail
The federally designated Wilderness Areas within the Park and Preserve are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, established in 1964 with the passage of the Wilderness Act. Today, over 100 million acres across the country are protected as ...
National Historic Landmark- Trujillo Homestead / Zapata Ranch
After the United States annexed Mexico’s northern territories in 1848, the new American citizens of the Southwest moved north and east. One of these Hispano Americans was Teofilo Trujillo, who settled with his wife in the San Luis Valley ...
San Luis Valley
The oldest evidence of humans in the area dates back about 11,000 years. Some of the first people to enter the San Luis Valley and the Great Sand Dunes area were nomadic hunters and gatherers whose connection to the ...
Dunefield Overlook
Great Sand Dunes have been continually forming for over 400,000 years. The Great Sand Dunes form when wind and water move sand. Most sand comes from the San Juan Mountains, over 65 miles to the west. Larger, rougher grains ...
Upper and Lower Dogwood Trails
Walking paths have long been a part of Hot Springs National Park and the preceding Hot Springs Reservation. Many informal paths criss-crossed the mountains when Hot Springs Reservation was reclaimed by the federal government in 1878; however, formal trails were ...
Hot Springs Railroad
A narrow-gauge railroad line from Malvern to Hot Springs known as the “Diamond Jo Line” was completed by Jo Reynolds in 1875. Previous method of travel to hot springs had been a 24 mile hike by foot, horse, or carriage ...
Hale’s Hot Cave
In the fall of 1897, a petition from four bathhouse owners protested an unfair privilege granted to Hale Bathhouse where, in the basement’s interior a “hot cave” had been excavated featuring a thermal spring. The petitioners charged the Hale used ...
Gulpha Gorge
The earliest visitors who came to thehot springs to “take the bathe” and seek health from its mysterious waters may have been a group of Indians on the Archaic level, as evidence of their occupation is scattered throughout the State ...
Arlington Hotel
In1874, Samuel W. Fordyce and other investors financed the construction of the town’s first luxury hotel, The Arlington, at the end of bathhouse row on Valley Street. For a time, fire threatened the Arlington Hotel, and the fire of ...
Crystal and Pythian Bathhouses
Little is known about African American bathing services during the 1860s and 1870s. In the 1880s black patrons could buy bath tickets at the Ozark Bathhouse, the Independent Bathhouse, and possibly the Rammelsberg Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row, but they were ...
