If You're NearbyBent's Old Fort
Colorado
About 60 miles away
A rebuilt adobe trading post on the Santa Fe Trail, with costumed traders, a fur press and a blacksmith shop.
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Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
A prairie memorial where US troops killed more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, most of them women, children and elders, in 1864.
- Best Time to Go
- May–Jun, Sep–Oct
Our full guide to Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is being written. It's on the Rocky Mountains list as If You're Nearby.
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Worth a DetourColorado Springs
About 114 miles away
Red-rock towers at Garden of the Gods, a cog railway to the top of Pikes Peak, the Air Force Academy chapel and the US Olympic museum.
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Must-SeeGrand Canyon
Arizona
About 582 miles away
A mile deep and 18 miles wide. No photo prepares you for it.
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