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	Crestone, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1970s a large land development, the Baca Grande, was established to the south and west and several hundred homes have been built.
		The Crestone area, which includes the Baca Grande and Moffat, Colorado, is a spiritual and new age center with several world religions represented; including a Hindu temple, a Zen center, a coed Carmelite monastery, several Tibetan centers, and miscellaneous new age happenings.
		The Baca Grant was one of the first large tracts of land to be fenced in the West and in its heyday was the home of prize Hereford cattle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crestone,_Colorado (1140 words)

	Crestone Realty, Inc. -- Crestone Colorado Real Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is under the jurisdiction of the Baca Grande Property Owners Association and therefore is a separate entity from the Town of Crestone.
		AZL Resources, Inc. established the Baca Grande Corporation in 1971 to develop the northeastern part of its 154,000 acre Baca Grant cattle ranch in southern Colorado near the small town of Crestone.
		The Baca Grande is directly adjacent to the Great Sand Dunes National Park to the south, a 36,000 acre natural wonder which attracts over 300,000 visitors annually, and by the 1.8 million acre Rio Grande National Forest to the north and east.
	www.crestonerealty.com /bacagrande.html (1526 words)

	Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southwestern Colorado
		Baca Grande Airfield, as depicted on the July 1973 CG-19 World Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy).
		It depicted Baca Grande as a private airfield having a 7,000' runway.
		The Baca Grande Airfield is located on the east side of Route 66T, 3 miles southwest of Crestone.
	www.airfields-freeman.com /CO/Airfields_CO_SW.html (1029 words)

	Crestone/Baca,Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Baca Grande is a housing development adjacent to Crestone, designed in the 1970's, with 5,527 lots for homesites - 328 homes built to date - 105 miles of roads on 19.57 square miles of land, and a population of approximately 600.
		Manitou Foundation holds approximately 1,600 acres of land adjacent to the Baca, mainly in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountain chain.
		The Baca Grande is a covenanted community, with Covenants and Restrictions created in the early 70's, now being reviewed for changes.
	www.rosneath.com.au /ipc6/ch07/joseph (1902 words)

	Establishing the Baca Grande (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Baca Grande is directly adjacent to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument to the south, a 36,000 acre natural wonder which attracts over 300,000 visitors annually, and by the 1.8 million acre Rio Grande National Forest to the north and east.
		Additionally, the Baca Grande is less than 60 miles from the Monarch ski area and 95 miles from Wolf Creek ski area, which claims the highest snow fall in the nation.
		The property at the Baca Grande Development includes Chalet lots of one half acre or more which are generally tree covered with areas of meadow, rolling land and sandy soil.
	www.bacapoa.org /poa/poabackground.html (823 words)

	Northern-Valley.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Instead, we must look at the 120-plus-year old story of the town of Crestone and the 30-year old tale of the Baca Grande as two plots that have merged, in their later chapters, into a single book.
		Then, in 1971, the Baca Grande Corporation purchased a piece of the Luis Maria Baca Grant, subdivided it into more than 3000 residential lots, and the winds of change began to blow.
		Decades passed, and not all of the original development promises were kept, nor were many of the retirement dreams realized, and hundreds of original investors put their land back on the market.
	www.northern-valley.com /community.html (459 words)

	The Baca Campus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Baca Campus has proven to be an important part of CC's experience and is continually filled to capacity by students and friends of the College.
		The Baca Campus is situated at 8,500 feet above seal level at the north end of the San Luis Valley.
		Crestone, Colorado by Rebecca Laroche and Sonnet for Juan by Liz Lewis are both printed in Poems from the Baca Grande, a publication of the Hulbert Center Press.
	www2.coloradocollege.edu /dept/SW/bacacampus/bacacampus.htm (2275 words)

	San Luis Valley Event Log
		Baca residents "Tony," his wife and young child were travelling east on County Rd T, 2 miles east of Moffat, CO when they observed "a small cigar [-shaped] UFO.
		Baca resident "Betty" looked out over the valley and observed a "large, irridescent green ball' that appeared to be "low in the sky to the west" over the Center, CO area (25 miles SW of the Baca).
		Two witnesses in the Baca Grande Development (north of theCO/NM border about 90 miles) claim to have watched a "huge craft hovering over the center of the [San Luis] Valley." They described unblinking red and green lights that seemed to be arrayed around the object.
	www.ufoinfo.com /news/sanluisvalleylog.shtml (21777 words)

	Crestone / Baca Land Trust - Colorado Lottery Funds grant
		This grant, and the project that it funds are the culmination of tremendous grassroots support, combining the efforts of local, state and federal governmental agencies, the Baca Grande Property Owner’s Association, the volunteer efforts of the Land Trust and the contributions of numerous private land owners.
		The Conservation Site, in the Baca Grande development south of the town of Crestone, Colorado, is expected to be completed in May with the addition of another 70 acres of wetland.
		The Crestone/Baca Land Trust was created IN 1998 by local people in Crestone and the Baca Grande development with the help of the Manitou Institute with the goal of conserving the environmental integrity in the northeastern San Luis Valley.
	www.crestonelandtrust.org /pages/02.1_goco_funding.html (884 words)

	Rose Realty
		The Town of Crestone, Colorado and the adjoining 14,000 acre Baca Grande subdivision, is situated at the base of the northern end of the Sangre de Christo mountain range.
		The Baca Grande, or “the Baca,” is a 14,000 acre area that has been developed as a planned community and is governed by a Property Owner’s Association.
		The Baca is bordered by the Rio Grande National forest, BLM land, and The Great Sands Dunes National Park.
	www.crestonerose.com (836 words)

	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Hold Public Meetings to Discuss Management of Baca National Wildlife Refuge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The CMP will establish general guidance for management at Baca, and will not contain specific detail regarding issues such as whether new facilities will be built and where such facilities will be located, or how certain approved public uses will be implemented.
		The second meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 6, in Crestone, Colorado, at the Baca Grande Property Owners Association Hall, on the north side of County Road T, one mile east of Baca Grande Golf Course, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
		Baca National Wildlife Refuge was authorized by Congress in 2000, and will ultimately include approximately 92,500 acres of wetlands, desert uplands and riparian habitat in Alamosa and Saguache Counties.
	www.r6.fws.gov /PRESSREl/04-23.htm (532 words)

	The Crestone Eagle Newspaper Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Should this alternative be approved, it would be up to Saguache County Commissioners and the Baca Grande Property Owners to extend and improve roads for access to the Alpine Camp.
		Canaly, speaking on behalf of the Baca Grande community, expressed their interest in assuming the role of managing the boundary and taking responsibility for the parking issues in the subdivision.
		Local Baca resident, Linda Eickhoff, urged the importance of leaving options open as we move through a planning process and encouraged all involved to engage in creative thinking.
	www.crestoneeagle.com /archives/headlineA1.aug05.html (891 words)

	Gazette.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Baca, as folks around here call it, butts up against the southern border of Crestone and is home to 1,100 people and a dozen mostly Eastern spiritual centers, Zen retreats, ashrams and a Carmelite monastery.
		Those new federal lands, coupled with the presence of the Rio Grande National Forest to the east, means the community is surrounded on three sides by public lands.
		Lots in the Baca that sold for $2,000 to $3,000 up to three years ago are now selling for $5,000 to $25,000 and rising weekly, said Tamar Ellentuck, a land planner for the subdivision.
	www.gazette.com /display.php?id=1308550 (2016 words)

	The Crestone Eagle Newspaper Home
		Ron Garcia, Baca National Wildlife Refuge Manager, is organizing an informational meeting at the Baca Grande POA (Property Owners Association) building on August 9 at 6:30pm.
		Lexam Explorations, Inc. has notified the Baca Wildlife Refuge of their intention to exercise their mineral rights and explore for oil on the Baca Grant portion of the Refuge.
		On July 3, several flash floods came down the hillsides in the Baca Grande Chalets, causing widespread damage after a severe thunderstorm hit.
	www.crestoneeagle.com (235 words)

	Crestone / Baca Land Trust
		The Crestone / Baca Land Trust is a local organization, run by local community volunteers, and supported by individual contributions as well as grants - dedicated and committed to preserving the natural beauty, open space and wildlife heritage of the San Luis Valley's Crestone / Baca area and its surrounding region.
		And to these ends, encouraging property owners in our region to consolidate lots or to place conservation easements on their property to reduce density in the Baca Grande.
		the Crestone peaks viewed across the Baca Grande Grants from the Spanish Creek wetlands in late summer.
	www.crestonelandtrust.org (131 words)

	Cottonwood Creek Cabin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Crestone/Baca Grande is nestled under the 14,000-foot peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in south-central Colorado, just north of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, on the eastern edge of the magnificent San Luis Valley, the largest intermountain valley in the world.
		The small town of Crestone/Baca Grande has a reputation as a place of fantastic beauty and peace.
		The area is home for a number of spiritual groups and retreat centers, representing contemplative traditions from around the world.
	www.crestonecabin.com (280 words)

	High Country News -- Printable -- October 26, 1998: A water baron takes on the establishment
		The 100,000-acre Baca that Boyce bought from Canadian oilman Maurice Strong in 1995 results from an 1824 Mexican land grant.
		From the Sangres, the Baca runs east about 10 miles, almost to State Highway 17, a perfectly straight stretch of road across a nearly flat expanse of greasewood, salt grass and chico bush.
		The southern part of the valley is indeed drained by the Rio Grande, which flows south to New Mexico and Texas.
	www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=4560 (1586 words)

	Index
		The Baca Grande Water & Sanitation District Board of Directors is seeking someone to fill a director vacancy.
		You must be a registered elector and either own property within the District or be a resident of the District to be eligible to be a Board member.
		The Baca Grande Water and Sanitation District has completed the work to replace two water storage facilities in Chalet One – one off Moonlight Way and the other above Brookview Way.
	www.bacawater.com (323 words)

	Hulbert Press
		The Hulbert Center Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new book celebrating the tenth anniversary of Poetry West retreats at the Baca Grande campus located in the San Luis Valley near the town of Crestone.
		The Baca campus is operated by the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies.
		This small collection exemplifies the blessings of the Baca and this wonderful area where poets discover what it means to speak.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /dept/SW/hulbertpress/hulbertpress.htm (790 words)

	Poems from the Baca Grande (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Each year for ten years poets involved in Poetry West have met at Colorado College's Baca Grande campus in the extraordinary expanse of the San Luis Valley, for a few days of writing and renewal.
		Poems From The Baca Grande is a collection that celebrates both poetry and place.
		One poem is included here from each poet represented in the book, which is available for purchase from the Hulbert Center Press for $10.99.
	www.poetrywest.org /baca_book.htm (134 words)

	Crestonehenge: Stone Circle & Labyrinth in Crestone, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Crestone has a population of about 70 but located just outside the town limits is the 5000 acre Baca Grande subdivision where another 700 or so folks live.
		"Crestonehenge", the blue dot at the bottom of the map, is located about 6.6 miles from the entrance of the Baca, on the far south end of the Baca Grande subdivision.
		From the entrance of the Baca along Camino Baca Grande, it is about 2.3 miles to the intersection with Camino Real (locally known as Two Trees Road).
	www.efn.org /~kcp/maps.html (205 words)

	Crestone, Saguache County, Colorado - in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the San Luis Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Between Crestone and the Baca Grande Chalets and Grants, there might be 900-1000 people living here.
		The Baca Grande is a Land Grant given to Luis Maria Baca by the King of Spain in the 1600's.
		The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service have bought that major part of the Land Grant that isn't developed, and the water rights that go with it and transferred nearly all of that into the control of the Great Sand Dunes National Park.
	sangres.com /places/slv/crestone.htm (328 words)

	Appendix
		We plan to vacate a road that crosses the meadow and return the roadbed to its natural conditions.
		B) In order to increase understanding of the biological significance of wetland areas and the major riparian corridors in the Baca Grande and its vicinity, we plan to initiate an extensive biological assessment of the area to be conducted by the Colorado Natural Heritage Program in the spring of 2005.
		Through this survey, which is budgeted at $35,000, we hope to obtain specific ecological data that can be used to limit development in areas close to wetlands and riparian corridors.
	www.cclt.org /CCLTFundingGuide(OnlineVersion)_files/Appendix(Final).htm (2390 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Bernie Lumbert Announces Baca Grande Charitable Foundation for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Baca Grande at Crestone, Colorado, a companion to the Baca Grande at Angel Fire, is expanding and to satisfy the need for low cost housing, a charitable organization has been set up.
		For more info, call any real estate person of your choice, or you can Google ‘baca grande’ for more details E-mail or click bacagrande.org.
		We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of information on or available through this site, and we are not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in that information or for actions taken in reliance on that information.
	i-newswire.com /pr441.html (427 words)

	The Manitou Institute
		In those days, the total population of the Town of Crestone and the Baca Grande was only around 100 people, the brave few contemporary pioneers who chose to settle here.
		Then came the Baca Grande, at the forefront of a trend that continues today throughout Colorado and the west - the breaking up of historical ranchlands and mountain wilderness for residential “mega-developments”.
		An early special project, was a collaboration with the Crestone/Baca Land Trust in it’s formative years, Go Colorado Fund, the Baca Grande POA and The Nature Conservancy, which now holds an easement preserving sensitive wetlands in the Grants, that were previously lots to be developed.
	www.manitou.org /MI/mhcp.php (1506 words)

	Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information - - Document #5138909
		A feasibility study was performed to evaluate the potential of multipurpose applications of moderate-temperature geothermal waters in the vicinity of the Baca Grande community development in the San Luis Valley, Colorado.
		The project resource assessment, based on a thorough review of existing data, indicates that a substantial resource likely exists in the Baca Grande region capable of supporting residential and light industrial activity.
		Engineering designs were developed for geothermal district heating systems for space heating and domestic hot water heating for residences, including a mobile home park, an existing motel, a greenhouse complex, and other small commercial uses such as aquaculture.
	www.osti.gov /bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=5138909 (296 words)

	Maurice Strong - the true King of the World?
		Strong has established what could be the global headquarters for the New Age movement in the San Luis Valley of Colorado at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Crestone, Colorado.
		He and his occultic wife, Hanne, call the Baca an international spiritual community which they hope will serve as a model for the way the world should be if humankind is to survive - a sort of United Nations of religious beliefs.
		Much of the above information about the Strong and the Baca comes from an interview entitled "The Wizard Of the Baca Grande," which Maurice Strong conducted with WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada May 1990.
	home.sprynet.com /~eastwood01/mstrong2.htm (1421 words)

	Bernie Lumbert Announces Plan to Dig Worlds Longest Tunnel in Crestone, Colorado : ArriveNet Press Releases : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His first project is a three foot round tunnel from Crestone and the Baca Grande through Challenger peak to Westcliff in the Wet vall...
		His first project is a three foot round tunnel from Crestone and the Baca Grande through Challenger peak to Westcliff in the Wet valley of Custer County.
		Bernie hopes to pay for the tunnel and tramway by selling lots in the beautiful Baca Grande, one of the largest real estate developments in Colorado.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/428277.html (509 words)

	Crestone: Southern Colorado's Little Boulder? \| New West Network
		The development of Baca Grande has opened up the area, to some degree, to outsiders seeking the idyllic mountain life it affords – and with that has come a fairly modest increase in people and services over the years.
		For now it seems Crestone and the Baca Grande sit firmly on the cusp of a future that rests somewhere between best-kept-secret and national sensation.
		The town continues to hang on, even if precariously, by its impressive and naked ideal that cities like Boulder, Santa Fe and others were fleetingly prized for and, in their own upbringing and desire for progress, inevitably lost.
	www.newwest.net /index.php/main/article/5865 (1450 words)

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