Picketwire Canyon: A Hike Through Time

I recently took a trip to the extreme southeast corner of Colorado to the Comanche Grasslands to hike a canyon that is loaded with history. This canyon has evidence of having been inhabited for thousands of years by the Archaic Indians. More recently, in the late 1800s, the canyon was home to several Spanish homesites and even a Catholic mission and cemetery. Hiking even deeper into the canyon, one will come across the largest dinosaur tracksite in North America.

This is the story of my hike along the Purgatory River Valley in Picketwire Canyon, Colorado.