Huerfano County is uniquely situated between two Colorado cities, each with their own storied past. Trinidad, roughly 30 minutes south of Walsenburg, is an almost perfectly preserved Victorian city with a historic downtown studded with Italianate stonework facades that give the city a European look. Pueblo, 45 minutes north of Walsenburg, is known for cultivating [...]
Take a quick and easy drive north of Walsenburg and discover Pueblo, a culturally and historically-rich Colorado city made famous by being one of the largest steel-producing cities in the U.S. Built in 1881, Pueblo's Colorado Fuel and Iron Steel Mill attracted a large number of immigrant laborers, resulting in Pueblo becoming the most ethnically [...]
