Last updated: October 20, 2023
Place
Colorado Welcome Center, Fruita
Photo/Colorado Office of Tourism
Quick Facts
Location:
340 Hwy. 340, Fruita, CO 81521
Significance:
Information about visiting local Old Spanish Trail sites
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The Colorado Welcome Center (Fruita) contains information on the Old Spanish Trail that went through Colorado and the areas the travelers rested in Colorado. The following sites area in the area surrounding the Colorado Welcome Center and are great opportunities to explore the trail closer. For more information about these sites, please contact or visit the Colorado Welcome Center.
The Colorado River Front Trail allows visitors to explore the same corridor which Old Spanish Trail travelers used to by walking or cycling on the established paved path.
The Walter Wildlife Center's location along the Northern Route of the Old Spanish Trail provides the opportunity for visitors to view wildlife historic travelers may have encountered in the Colorado River Corridor of Western Colorado.
Las Colonias Park has been an influential and important area throughout Grand Junction’s history, because of its’ proximity to both rivers, the modern-day park and its surrounding area would have historically been used to develop the Northern Branch of the Old Spanish Trail.
River Crossing / Eagle Rim was once an area that many explorers crossed through the northern route and now it’s modern-day park.
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Location (340 Hwy. 340, Fruita, CO 81521)
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