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1965 Map of Cold Spring Park

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Cold Spring Park
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

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Gunnison National Forest dominates this mid-1960s survey of Saguache County, revealing a high-altitude landscape of ranching and water management. Evidence of human activity is concentrated at sites like McDonough Ranch and the Old Agency Ranger Station, while a solitary Grave and a remote Landing Strip near Cochetopa Creek speak to the isolation of these mountain basins.

Water rights and irrigation are central to the terrain, marked by the Perry Ditch, Mesa Ditch, and the larger Tarbell and Alexander Ditch. The network of Jeep Trails and the Pauline Trail connects disparate meadows and gulches, such as Cold Spring Park and Sanderson Park, illustrating how early forest management and livestock operations navigated this part of the Continental Divide's western slopes.