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Southwest & San Juans
Durango, Telluride and Cortez connect rail heritage, mountain-town life and Ancestral Pueblo places.
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Southwest & San Juans, a little closer.
Durango, Telluride and Cortez connect rail heritage, mountain-town life and Ancestral Pueblo places. Leave room for longer drives, museum time and separately reserved experiences.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Colorado photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- The unique Telluride/Mountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Mesa Verde pueblos, Cortez, Colorado — Carol M. Highsmith. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Colorado FIPS08. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.