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1967 Map of Pool Table Mountain

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Pool Table Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

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La Garita Wilderness and the Rio Grande National Forest dominate this high-altitude landscape, where the primary human footprint is defined by historical livestock movement. The network of the La Garita Stock Driveway, Wannamaker Stock Driveway, and Alder Stock Driveway traces a complex system of seasonal grazing routes across the La Garita Mountains.

The terrain is a series of high-elevation meadows and drainage basins, including Pool Table Mountain and a sequence of named openings like Middle Park, Corral Park, and Blue Park. Waterways such as Bellows Creek and Trujillo Creek carve through steep canyons including Cañon Nieve and Cañon Bellows, while a web of Pack Trails and Jeep Trails provides the only access into the interior, reflecting the area's role as a working wilderness in the late 1960s.