Tag: Capulin Volcano National Monument
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Free day coming up at Colorado’s national parks and beyond
For one day coming up at Colorado’s national parks and monuments, no need to take out your wallet. The National Park Service is waiving admission for one of its “fee-free days” on the calendar: June 19. That’s in recognition of Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth was…
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Just south of Colorado border, you can walk into a volcano crater
CAPULIN, N.M. • Just beyond Colorado’s southern border into New Mexico, a lonely highway runs through fields of cattle and pronghorn, of windmills and splintered, crumbling remains of homesteads. Then the mountain emerges. Now the imagination travels to a time long before the Wild West. The mountain’s shape is unmistakable — “a striking example of…