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Fly Fishing on Culebra Creek is at it's prime in the fall. Monster Brown Trout and Fierce Fighting Rainbow and Cutbow Trout feed up before winter. |
| 22" Brown Trout caught by client September 1, 2003. |
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San Luis Colorado
The San Luis Museum and Cultural Center has packaged this history for you in displays of Spanish artifacts and Hispanic art. The center’s indoor and outdoor theaters host films, plays, and other special festivals throughout the year. A newly created 1.4-mile path lined with bronze sculptures, which wanders through the forest of a nearby mesa, represents the Stations of the Cross and reflects the community’s religious commitment.
Sixteen miles north of this tiny village is Fort Garland, the
1858 U.S. military fort that replaced Fort Massachusetts, the first
outpost in the valley. Kit Carson was at Fort Garland from 1866
to 1867. Today the old outpost has been reconstructed into the
Fort Garland Museum, which depicts a lonely and isolated frontier
with Native American, Mexican, and Anglo artifacts, plus military
garb and Hispanic folk art.
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At the southern end of the San Luis Valley and at the foot of
14,047-foot Culebra Peak, this Hispanic town is Colorado’s
oldest. More characteristic of New Mexico than Colorado, this community,
with its abode architecture and shared crop-growing area, is a
special member of the state. Many citizens are relatives of the
Mexican land-granters who first settled this area in 1851. The
Plaza de San Luis de la Rio Culebra Historic District encompasses
downtown and the surrounding La Vega, a 600-acre community-shared
tract of land, which is the only of its kind left in the nation. 
Looking for an interesting place to stay? The 1886 Sangre de Cristo
Parish Church building is now El Convento Bed and Breakfast; local
artists sell their work on a lower-level space. 
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