Greg's Family At Chaco Canyon (Please Click Image To Enlarge)

I LOVE SOUTHWEST COLORADO! A FANTASTIC PLACE TO LIVE AND PLAY! There is no place like home, and there is no home like Durango! Our location on the edge of the mountains and the desert creates a unique and wonderful 4 season playground. The beauty of the San Juan National Forest, the variety of activities and the quality of life are unbeatable!

Durango is located in the Animas River valley of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The region is frequently referred to as the "Four Corners" because it lies near the Four Corners National Monument, the place where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet.

The canyon-plateau country that makes up a large part of the Four Corners area attracts travelers who delight in the scenery of towering buttes, cliffs, chimney rocks and the impressive skylines they form.

Here one can learn about the American Indian cultures who once inhabited the region, as well as the Indian cultures that still exist here, having retained their tribal characteristics long after most other North American tribes have been absorbed by modern society.

The ancestral Puebloans were the first settlers in the region, mysteriously leaving around 1300 A.D. and leaving behind a territory rich in archaeological relics which provide insight into the way civilizations live here a thousand years ago.

The Ute and Navajo Indians moved into the Four Corners region next, claiming all of western Colorado as their home by the 16th century. The Utes were hunters and gatherers, inhabiting the higher reaches of the region in the San Juan Mountains. The Spanish explored the area in the early 1600s. The missionary expedition of Dominguez and Escalante passed through the region in 1776 and gave names to many of the local landmarks. Today, the Rio de las Animas Perdidas - River of Lost Souls - is known as the Animas River.

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