Out-of-Door Playgrounds of 
Page Seventeen The SanIsabel National Forest 
Outfitting Points 
Westcliffe, at which the headquarters of the Forest Supervisor 
is located, is a thriving town of 300 people at the terminus of a branch 
of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad running from Texas Creek 
on the main line, distance 25 miles. Here may be found three hotels, 
two garages, a livery barn, and numerous stores from which outfits 
for a trip into the mountains may be purchased. Gardner, on the 
Huerfano River, with two stores, two hotels, and a garage, is a central 
outfitting point for trips to Sierra Blanca Peak and the upper Huerfano. 
On the San Luis Valley side of the Sangre de Cristo, Villa Grove and 
Crestone are small towns with limited tourist facilities, from which 
numerous interesting trips may be made into near-by mountains. 
In the vicinity of the Spanish Peaks, La Veta, Walsenburg, and 
Trinidad are all splendid towns with every facility for equipping 
Breaking camp after a night’s rest. 
