What: Bent’s Old Fort. Where: Take Colorado 194 east from La Junta. It is only six miles to the entrance. Parking is close to the highway and visitors can walk or ride a complimentary shuttle to the ...

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 cultural ...

Roughly eight years before Fort Pueblo was established in what is today Downtown Pueblo, traders gathered at what is now Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, approximately 70 miles east along the ...

Parts of the decades-old reconstructed adobe trading post at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta are failing. That includes some of the cottonwood and pine timbers used as supports ...

A question arises as we approach Bent’s Fort, or Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site as it’s now called: Why here? Why, in 1833, did Charles and William Bent, and their partner Ceran St. Vrain, ...

OTERO COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — As of Sunday morning, April 12 the Bent’s Fort Fire is about 95 percent contained, according to the Otero County Sheriff. The fire was first reported on Saturday afternoon ...

Firefighters are celebrating a key victory even as they continued Thursday to battle two wildfires in southeast Colorado that have burned thousands of acres, destroyed structures and forced ...

Once on the international border between two nations, Bent’s Fort was at the crossroads of many cultures. The National Park Service has rebuilt the trading post to its 1833 appearance. Depending on ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. (CBS4)- Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is considering increasing fees for the first time in 25 years. The site is a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post that's near La ...

LA JUNTA — A "large" fire caused the closure of State Highway 194 near the Otero/Bent county line Saturday afternoon. The fire, named the "Bent's Fort Fire," started east of La Junta in Otero County.