Pawnee National Grasslands
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Pawnee National Grassland is a United States National Grassland located in northeastern Colorado on the Colorado Eastern Plains. The grassland is located in the South Platte River basin in remote Weld County between Greeley and Sterling. It comprises two parcels totalling 193,000 acres (781 km²) largely between Colorado State Highway 14 and the Wyoming border. It is administered in conjunction with the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest from the U.S. Forest Service office in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a suboffice in Greeley. The grassland contains several hiking trails, including one that allows foot access to the Pawnee Buttes, the most notably geologic feature of the Grasslands.
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 Colorado Cattle Company & Guest RanchNew Raymer, Colorado Phone: 1-970-437-5345 The Colorado Cattle Company is located in the Pawnee National Grasslands. Teepee rings of large rocks, are still visible where the tribes held their teepee's in place. Arrowheads, tools, jewelry & medicine bottles from settlers were found. They were fierce fighters and even fought among themselves. Know as "dog" people, the Pawnee never acquired the use of the horse like the Northern Cheyenne or the Southern Comanche. They hunted buffalo by herding them, with dog packs, over bluffs to the killing party below. One of the first tribes wiped out, a historian said, "if they had acquired use of the horse they would have a reservation as opposed to a National Park named after them."  |
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Sylvan Dale Guest RanchLoveland, Colorado Phone: +1 877-667-3999 About 84 miles away, 1.5 hours |
