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Highway of Legends

110 km / 8.8 kg CO2
 translate  La State Highway 12, anche nota come Highway of Legends, collega Trinidad con La Vega evitando la Highway 160 e passando tra miniere abbandonate, ghost town e parchi naturali.
E' una delle strade più belle di tutto il Colorado, nella parte finale, nonostate il Cuchara Pass sia oltre i 3000 metri, la strada è dominate dalle maestose Spanish Peaks, due vulcani ormai spenti che vale la pena di visitare facendo una sosta al Cordova Pass.
Potrete fermarvi a Cuchara e rivivere l'atmosfera del vecchio "west"
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  • Cordova Pass (Colorado)
    Cordova Pass (11,248 feet (3,428 m)) lies on the western shoulder of the West Spanish Peak, east of the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southern Colorado. Cordova Pass lies just outside the Spanish Peaks Wilderness, a designated National Wilderness Area on the San Isabel National Forest. Cordova Pass is reached via the Apishapa Road, a leg of the Scenic Highway of Legends (a designated Colorado and National Forest Service scenic byway). As the National Forest Service does not normally plow the snow, Cordova Pass is normally not accessible from mid November to late May. Most of the time, the pass may be traversed by passenger vehicles.  edit   » read more
  • Trinidad Lake State Park
    Trinidad Lake State Park is a state park near Trinidad, Colorado, United States. The park protects Trinidad Lake, a dammed reservoir. There are hiking trails, and camping and boating opportunities. The park features historical attractions such as the coal mining ruins at Cokedale. An exposure of the K–T boundary is visible in the southern part of the park. A portion of the mountain route of the Santa Fe Trail runs through the park.  edit   » read more
  • West Spanish Peak
    West Spanish Peak is a high mountain peak in the US state of Colorado. It is the higher of the two Spanish Peaks, two large igneous stocks which form an eastern outlier of the Culebra Range, a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Though not a fourteener, it is the twelfth most topographically prominent peak in the state. West Spanish Peak is the easternmost 4000 meter (13,123 ft) mountain peak in the United States. Due to its position well east of the Culebra Range and on the edge of the eastern plains of Colorado, West Spanish Peak enjoys great local vertical relief in almost all directions. For example, it rises over 5,200 ft (1,585 m) in less than 4 miles (6.4 km) on both its north and south flanks.  edit   » read more
  • Madrid

    Madrid is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It is east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of. The town is the west side of the county along Colorado State Highway 12, fourteen miles west of Trinidad. Madrid is named for the family that settled there in the 19th century.  edit 
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  • Cuchara Pass
    Altezza 3.029 mt. s.l.m.  edit 
  • Highway of Legends
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  • Trinidad - 0 km
  • Cokedale - 13 km
  • Medina Plaza - 31 km
  • Stonewall - 52 km
  • Monument Park - 62 km
  • Chuchara - 88 km
  • La Veta - 110 km

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