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Riding High in the San Juans: Archaeological Testing and Remediation Efforts at Animas Forks along the Alpine Loop (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Animas Forks flourished between 1877 and 1913 as a Victorian-era mining town in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. In recent years, it has become a popular tourist destination along the Alpine Loop off-road vehicle route. Because abandoned mine remains in the area could represent a threat to recreationalists at...