OTERO COUNTY, Colorado — A trip to Bent's Old Fort is a trip back in time. The sights, sounds, and smells are all meant to bring guests back to the pioneer days of the American West. The ...

Two hours southeast of Colorado Springs, you will find a castle-like fort built in the 1800s. Nearly 200 years later, Bent’s ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. (KKTV) - Firefighters worked overnight to protect the historic Bent’s Old Fort after a fast-moving brush fire ignited Sunday evening. According to the La Junta Fire Department ...

Historical re-enactors and living history interpreters Bob Kisthart, left, and Bill Holcombe, dressed in period clothing, chat at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in La Junta, Colorado on ...

Southern Colorado's "Castle on the Plains" is facing major changes as the National Parks Service deals with challenges caused by the aging building. Bent's Old Fort, located near La Junta ...

closes up the fort for the day at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in La Junta, Colorado on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) Bent’s Old Fort National ...

Chef Staib discovers what life was like in the 1800s at this reconstructed adobe fort Bent’s Old Fort, in present-day Colorado, was once a bustling trading post for a diverse mix of travelers ...

Bent’s Old Fort, built in Colorado in 1833, was a major fur trading post along the Santa Fe Trail. During its 16 year occupation, the fort was the center of the Bent, St. Vrain Trade Company and also ...

Regular park entrance fees apply. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is located on Colorado Highway 194, eight miles east of La Junta. ESTES PARK — The Estes Park Arts and Crafts Show ...

The sprawling adobe structure was built in the early 1960s by Elizabeth and Samuel Arnold as a replica of Bent's Fort, a trading post located along the Santa Fe Trail in southeastern Colorado more ...