This cache is part of the larger Santa Fe Trail GeoTour. Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. Containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters, or Brochure-Holder boxes, with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. Permission to set caches has been obtained. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set.
The Baca-Bloom house is located on US Highway 350 in Trinidad. It was built by a Santa Fe Trail merchant, John Hough, and later sold to the Baca family. The Santa Fe Trail passed near the house, and several of its present furnishings were brought west on the trail. The structure is now a state-operated museum and is listed on the National Registry.
Another important landmark in the Trinidad area is Fisher's Peak. Fisher's Peak overlooks the entrance to Raton Pass between Trinidad, Colorado, and Raton, New Mexico. It was a landmark for Santa Fe Trail travelers, jutting out from the surrounding mesa. Also important to Trail traveler's as a landmark, are the Spanish Peaks. The Spanish Peaks are west-northwest of Trinidad. They can be seen from great distances along the Mountain route of the Santa Fe Trail
For more information, visit:
Trinidad History Museum, hours are 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tues-Sat.
312 E. Main
719-846-7217
historycolorado.org/museums/trinidad-history-museum