• HerbAvoreHosting and Toasting, 2018Traveler
    Living history day participant of suspicious authenticity. No, the peacock.

    Bent's Old Fort NHS [La Junta, CO]

    June 8, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 30 °C

    More forts and sand dunes. Visited Bent's Old Fort Natl Historic Site, locale of the largest Outpost when the Santa Fe Trail was in it's heyday. The paparazzi would have been ecstatic with all the celebrity frontiersmen that passed through here. The adobe fort is completely and accurately rebuilt and we were lucky enough to visit on a living history day with dozens of characters in costume.

    Also swung by Great Sand Dunes NP. Glad it's there but we're not beach people.    Read more