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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Colorado · La Junta, CO

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  • Address:35110 State Highway 194 · La Junta, CO · 81050
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site features a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the mountain branch of the Santa Fe Trail where traders, trappers, travelers, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes came together in peaceful terms for trade. Today, living historians recreate the sights, sounds, and smells of the past with guided tours, demonstrations and special events.

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Bent's Old Fort is a historical fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States. A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes. For much of its 16-year operation as a trading post, the fort was the only major white American permanent settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements. It was initially abandoned by William Bent in 1849.

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Big Loop Trail

Big Loop Trail

1.4 mi
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Paved Walkway

Paved Walkway

0.3 mi
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South Loop Trail

South Loop Trail

0.2 mi
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