For the outdoor enthusiast, the San Juan Mountains are one of the great playgrounds in the Lower 48, with 13 fourteeners and countless other beautiful peaks, the headwaters of the Rio Grande and numerous waterfalls, old frontier towns and a rich legacy left behind from mining booms of the 19th century. The San Juan Mountains are comprised almost entirely of public land, nearly 2 million sprawling acres in the San Juan National Forest, which includes Lizard Head, South San Juan, and Weminuche…
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