There is a stunning panorama in northern Colorado unlike any other in the Centennial State, a place of solitude far from crowded trails and high country attractions teeming with tourists.
The Pawnee Buttes, near Grover, Colorado, as seen on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. The Pawnee Buttes are located in the northeast corner of Weld County, Colorado, approximately 13 miles south of the Wyoming border. It lacks the alpine grandeur of the Continental Divide and the state’s iconic fourteeners. The elevation is the same as Denver.
“This land was beautiful,” he wrote. “From the buttes at sunrise a man would be able to look east and see a hundred miles to unbroken horizons, stark meadow after meadow reaching beyond the human imagination. The colors were superb, but the uninitiated could look at them and not see them, for they were soft grays and delicate browns and azure purples.”
“There were automobile dealerships, book stores, dry grocers, butchers, bakers,” said Vernon Koehler, who has worked at the grasslands for 15 years as a mineral and lands program manager, and who seems well acquainted with every creek and cranny in its 193,000 acres. “Across the prairie there were all these people who homesteaded. About a mile out in every direction, there would have been a house. You had thousands of people who were trying to make a go of it on their farms.
lived in Greeley in the late1930s, earning a masters degree from Colorado State College of Education and teaching at a K-12 school “This morning I was up with a complete novel outlined,” he wrote. “I had not thought of its subject since 1937, but now it stood forth in complete detail. … The word Centennial must have reminded me of the Centennial State, and of an imaginary plains town of that name which has lived with me since 1937 when I first saw the Platte .”
“The Indigenous people spent a lot of time here, but a lot of it was just passing through, going from water place to water place,” Koehler said last week while admiring the view at the trailhead. “There’s probably no 30-meter by 30-meter square out here that is untrodden by humans. Then, the settlers. We have pictures of, I think it was a Model T pulling a plow over near the buttes. Between here and the buttes was farmground in the ‘20s.
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