22 | Highway of Legends

Length: 82 miles. Driving time: 2 hours.
Open All Year

You will enjoy the dramatic settings that have inspired tall tales among Native American nomads, Spanish explorers, and Anglo and Hispanic settlers for hundreds of years.From the impenetrable heights of the Sangre de Cristos and Spanish Peaks to the ominous redrock abutments of the Dakota Wall and the Devil’s Stairsteps, this land is truly larger than life.

An extension was recently added to the byway from the town of Aguilar on I-25 west over 11,248 ft. Cordova Pass, reconnecting to State Highway 12 at Cuchara Pass. The 35-mile extension follows Huerfano/Las Animas County Road #46 through the San Isabel National Forest.

Features include:

• Main Towns: Trinidad; Walsenburg
• The town of Cokedale, on the National Register of Historic Places
• San Isabel National Forest
• Geological formations
• Trinidad State Park
• Spanish Peaks
• Lathrop State Park
• Huerfano County Museums
• Huerfano County Tourism
• Monument Lake, North Lake, Trinidad Lake State Park

Wildlife: Elk, Black Bear, Bobcat, Wide Variety of Songbirds