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Exploring the Historic San Juan Triangle

by P. David Smith

A regional guide to the San Juan Mountains

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A regional guide to the San Juan Mountains

P. David Smith’s expanded guide centers on the historic San Juan Triangle, with chapters on Telluride, Silverton, Ouray, and Lake City alongside accounts of smaller communities, including places that have been abandoned. Its practical and visual elements—maps, photographs, road tours, and trip information—connect the region’s mining and settlement history with ways of exploring its mountain roads and landscapes. The book is presented for both travel planning and armchair exploration, bringing local places and routes together in one regional survey.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Travelers planning road tours or four-wheel-drive trips in the San Juan Mountains
  • Hikers and visitors interested in Telluride, Silverton, Ouray, Lake City, and nearby communities
  • Readers curious about the region’s historic and abandoned settlements

Themes

San Juan Mountains regional historyHistoric and abandoned communitiesMountain travel and road touringMining heritage

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Book overview

Exploring the Historic San Juan Triangle is the revised, expanded, and updated version of Mountain Mysteries, tthe number one guide to the magnificent San Juan Mountains. New chapters on Telluride, Silverton, Ouray, and Lake City, as well as details on many existing and long-abandoned small communities, have been added. Whether it's hiking, jeeping, auto touring or just armchair reading, David Smith takes the reader on a grand tour of the resplendent San Juans. Filled with rare photographs, specially drawn maps, new trips, updated road tours, and scores of new information, Exploring the San Juan Triangle is truly The Number One Jeeping Guide of the San Juan Mountains!!

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