Allenspark View #2
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Allenspark View #2
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
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Allenspark is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado.
While it was first visited by Native Americans and later by trappers, Allen's Park—now spelled Allenspark—got its name from a miner who built the first cabin in the area.
During the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, Allenspark's namesake, Alonzo Nelson Allen, left his family in Columbus, Wisconsin, to seek his fortune in the Kansas/Nebraska Territories that became Colorado. He settled on the St. Vrain River, south of the current city of Longmont, Colorado.
Allen prospected and ran cattle in Allenspark and built a cabin there in 1864. The cabin burned down in 1894, the year Allen died.
Looking west, one sees this 14,259 foot mountain in northern Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. Longs Peak has served as a navigational aid for thousands of years. Prehistoric hunters oriented their travels by it and the Ute Indians saw it as a sacred place and guiding landmark. French speaking fur trappers called Longs Peak and adjacent Mt. Meeker "Les Deux Oreilles," or the Two Ears.
After Major Stephen H. Long led a U.S. Army topographic expedition to this region in 1820, the peak was named for him. As Major Long and his party of 22 explorers neared the Rocky Mountains, he wrote, "a high Peake was plainly to be distinguished towering above all the others as far as sight extended." Modern travelers still use this famous landmark to orient themselves when needed...
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2023 Jon Burch Photography
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September 26th, 2023
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