Everything about Raton Pass totally explained
Raton Pass (7834 feet or 2388 meters elevation) is a
mountain pass on the
Santa Fe Trail along the
Colorado-
New Mexico border in the
United States. Raton Pass is a federally designated
National Historic Landmark.
Ratón is Spanish for "mouse."
The pass is located on the eastern side of the
Sangre de Cristo Mountains between
Trinidad, Colorado and
Raton, New Mexico, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northeast of
Santa Fe. The pass furnishes the most direct land route between the valley of
Arkansas River to the north and the valley of the
Cimarron River to the south.
History
In the
19th century it was used as the primary route of the
Santa Fe Trail, and was developed into a road by
Richens Lacey Wootton. Later in the late 1800s, it was used by the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as the railroad's primary route through the mountains. Along with the
Royal Gorge in Colorado the pass was one of the focal points for the
1878-
1879 Railroad Wars between the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the smaller
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. In the
20th century it became the route of
Interstate 25 between
Denver and
Albuquerque. The pass isn't particularly high but is sporadically subject to difficult driving during heavy winter snowfalls.
The pass was part of a
Townes Van Zandt song "Snowin' on Raton". During a live performance, Townes commented how he liked playing a show in Colorado because he didn't have to explain what Raton was. It was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1960.
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