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Fort Collins Military Years Tour
Fort Collins Military Years Tour
Fort Collins Military Years Tour
Fort Collins Military Years Tour
Fort Collins Military Years Tour

Fort Collins Military Years Tour

By Traces of the Past History Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is €37 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

For each tour, owner and principal historical interpreter, Mark Serour, imparts the intriguing history of Fort Collins and the surrounding region in an engaging, detailed, and fun fashion.

To enhance the customer experience, Mark dresses in period clothing and shares a variety of relevant visual aids from the Traces of the Past company collections and archives. We are the only History tours business in greater Fort Collins that provides such a service.

Customers will enjoy a guided van tour coupled with some light walking around the greater Fort Collins area. Our tours present the fascinating stories of personalities and events that pertain not only to the immediate Cache la Poudre River valley, but also to southeastern WY and western NE. Thorough history is not the storey of one locality, but an all-encompassing impartial study that involves many peoples spread over a broad geographic area. Traces of the Past History Tours strives to do just that.

Activity location

  • Cache La Poudre River
    • Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 4936 W County Rd 52 E
    • 4936 West County Road 52 East
    • 80512, Bellvue, Colorado, United States

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Fort Collins Military Years Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
€36.91 x 1 Adult€36.91
Total
Price is €36.91
Until Thu, 2 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedEach guest will receive a customised stage coach ticket.

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Cache La Poudre River
  • 15m
Cache la Poudre River: The Cache la Poudre River - French for "hide, or store, the powder," this stream attracted Native Americans, fur trappers, and emigrants to its grassy and wooded banks. The life blood to a desert climate, it eventually fostered extensive settlement in the fertile valley that paved the way for the founding of the future city of Fort Collins.
Laporte
  • 20m
Camp Collins No. 1: The US Army first established a presence in the Cache la Poudre River valley in 1862 when orders were issued to deploy along the new post route. Although nothing of the built environment remains of this post, customers will see its location and understand its geographic context and begin to learn about life in the frontier military.
Gustav Swanson Natural Area
  • 20m
Camp Collins No. 2, Fort Collins: The decision was made by Colonel William Collins to relocate the post further down the river in the summer of 1864 for several reasons. A detachment of Collins’ own 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in conjunction with local resident Joseph Mason, as an unofficial guide, settled on a parcel that is now encompassed by present Fort Collins. The decision was made by Colonel William Collins to relocate the post further down the river in the summer of 1864 for several reasons. A detachment of Collins’ own 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in conjunction with local resident Joseph Mason as unofficial guide settled on a parcel that is now encompassed by present Fort Collins. A good period view of the original fort site is offered.
Library Park
  • 20m
Historic Janis and Stone cabins: Located in Library Park, these are two of the oldest intact buildings extant in Larimer County. Dating to the late 1850s and early 1860s, they provide a glimpse of the common architectural style that predominated in the Poudre valley during early settlement. Both cabins are administered by the City of Fort Collins and public access is limited.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESCache La Poudre River
    • Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE4936 W County Rd 52 E
    • 4936 West County Road 52 East
    • 80512, Bellvue, Colorado, United States

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