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Bent’s Fort to Waive Fees for 2016 National Park Service Centennial
La Junta, CO – Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is waiving its admission fees for all of 2016 in recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service. Admission to the fort will be free to all beginning on January 2, 2016. “We think of this as a gift to both the […]
Bent’s Fort Celebrates Holidays, 1840s-Style
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site will celebrate the holidays in 1840s fashion beginning on Friday evening, December 4 and continuing all through the day on Saturday, December 5. Events begin with guided candlelight tours through the fort starting at 6:30 pm on Friday, December 4. Groups depart at 15 minute intervals and are led […]
Bent’s Fort Welcomes New “Staff”
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site recently welcomed two new “staff members” when the site acquired two donkeys from the Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary in Deer Trail, Colorado. The two jennys (female donkeys), named Thelma and Louise, were originally rounded up from public lands in Nevada. Louise, the mother is eleven years of age; […]
Bent’s Fort to Host American Mountain Men
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site will host the Fall 2014 Territorial Encampment of the American Mountain Men, October 22-25, 2014. Between 50 and 60 re-enactors are expected to take part in the encampment which will be located in the cottonwood grove between the fort and the Arkansas River. Visitors are invited to visit the […]
2014 Annual Birding & Heritage Event, May 15-18 Las Animas, Bent County
Head to Las Animas in mid May for the annual entertaining and educational field trips with guides to visit birding trails, petroglyphs and dinosaur tracks in SE Colorado’s canyons and plains. Visit the gateway city to Bent’s Old Fort, for a fun alterative outing for the ‘Bent on Birding & Heritage Festival’. The 17th Annual […]
Unearthing the Past at Bent’s New Fort
Several local students and some from the archeology department at the University of Colroado, Colorado Springs, were at the dig site of Bent’s New Fort earlier this month. Under the guidance of Richard Carrillo of Cuartelejo HP Associates of La junta, the students used small shovels and metal detectors to probe the remains of […]
Pedal the Plains Bicycle Tour Includes Lamar, La Junta, Eads
DENVER — Wednesday, April 24, 2013 — Gov. John Hickenlooper, The Denver Post and the Office of Economic Development and International Trade today announced the route for the second annual Pedal The Plains Bicycle Tour, scheduled for Sept. 20-22, 2013. The tour this year will stop in Eads, Lamar and La Junta. A press conference […]
Bent’s Old Fort Visitors Create Nearly $1 Million in Local Economic Benefit
Part of $30 billion impact that supports 252,000 jobs nationwide. A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011shows that the 26,842 visitors to Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site spent $995,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 13 jobs in the local area. “Bent’s Old Fort is a wonderful place to learn […]
Lamar Hosts 36th Annual Senior Speak Out
Seniors from around the region gathered information and voiced their concerns on several levels during their two day, 36th annual Senior Speak Out gathering, “Rockin’ & Rollin’: Seniors on the Go”. The annual event was held at the Rodeway Cow Palace Inn, Thursday and Friday, October 4 and 5 and got underway Thursday afternoon following […]
Bent’s Fort to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
The National Park Service at Bent’s Old Fort will join with Otero Junior College to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with a special day of activities on Saturday, October 6. Hispanic Heritage Day at the fort will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a Mariachi concert and dance at […]
Big Timbers Museum Update
Curator Kathleen Scranton detailed the quarterly update for activities at the Big Timbers Museum during the weekly Prowers County Commissioners meeting, Thursday, January 26. Museum staff has currently inventoried 8,112 separate items, according to Scranton, about a third of display items on hand. She said volunteers from the Prowers Historical Society are helping categorize […]
National Park Service Considering Boggsville in Bent County
COLO. – Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is pleased to announce that the National Park Service (NPS) is preforming a reconnaissance study of the Boggsville Historic Site in Bent County. If the study determines that the site qualifies to be a “unit” of the NPS then the agency will become responsible for operations, maintenance and preservation of […]