Before 1880
TRAILS
Indian trails were throughout Western Colorado. The Dominguez-Escalante
party used those trails while exploring a route from Santa Fe to
California. They came through Mesa County in August, 1776. A wagon road
developed which is called the Old Spanish Trail. This sign, at Eagle Rim
Park on Orchard Mesa, commemorates that trail and its ford across the
Colorado River.
(Vicki Felmlee Photo)