Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Durango
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Durango? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Christ of the Mines Shrine, Giant Arrows at the Hogan Trading Post, Hesperus Mountain (Dibé Nitsaa) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Durango they'd never find on their own.
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Christ of the Mines Shrine
In 1959, Silverton hauled twelve tons of Carrara marble—cut from the same Italian quarries as Michelangelo’s…
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Giant Arrows at the Hogan Trading Post
Somewhere, a giant missed. In 1981, trading post owner Bill Countess and a crew of local Native American arti…
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Hesperus Mountain (Dibé Nitsaa)
In the Diné creation story, First Man fastened this peak to the earth with a rainbow beam and filled it with…
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Telluride Free Box
It started in 1975 as a box of clothes left outside a health-food store, and Telluride never let it die. When…
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Tour of Carvings at Vallecito Lake
After the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire took 73,000 acres and firefighter Alan Wyatt, Pagosa Springs carver Chad…
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Ames Hydroelectric Generating Station
On June 19, 1891, a small stone powerhouse in a river canyon outside Ophir made electrical history: L.L. Nunn…
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Dennis Weaver Memorial Park
Best known as Chester on Gunsmoke and the wisecracking New Mexico deputy in McCloud, Dennis Weaver left Holly…