The new La Junta Post Office opened in 1916, and the Spanish Colonial Revival structure quickly became the architectural focal point of the community. 

Constructed between 1933 and 1941, the park demonstrates the importance of federal relief programs in Colorado during the Great Depression.  The Civil Works Administration project focused on drainage in the park, while the later Works Progress Administration projects involved extensive landscaping that included building the lake; planting trees and building drives; and constructing rustic stone walls, benches and buildings.  La Junta City Park is the primary park for the community.  Although the land was donated to the city in 1905, few improvements were made. 

The 1948 museum (with additions in 1958 and 1980) is a good example of the Pueblo Revival style.  It is the only identified example of the style in Otero County. 

Wilson A. Hart paid $2,000 in 1898 for the construction of the house as a wedding present for his wife, Mary.

Dr. Frank Finney’s 1899 house exhibits the most lavishly detailed exterior in this Plains community. 

he Elks Lodge # 701 building has served as the headquarters of La Junta’s primary fraternal service organization since the lodge’s establishment in 1901.  The building exhibits an intact and well executed 1950 facade modernization. 

This site northeast of La Junta once contained Bent’s Old Fort, an important trading post near the Arkansas River along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail.  Constructed around 1833 by brothers Charles and William Bent and partner Ceran St. Vrain, the fort occupied an area that at that time was the border between the United States and newly independent Mexico.

These trail segments are part of the larger Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route that provided a vital transportation link between the United States and the newly independent Mexico fostering not only commercial trade, but also establishing social ties that were pivotal to regional development and expansion of the United States from 1832-1879.  Contrary to popular perception, the Santa Fe Trail was not a single trail with two branches, but a complex transportation system made up of various routes, starting points, and destinations.

This large and deep rockshelter, occupied as early as AD 600 to perhaps AD 1500, yielded brownware ceramics, provoking questions as to whether the Pueblos abandoned their territory or were assimilated into a new population and how these changes related to the Ute presence in the area.

The approximately six mile long flume is a three-sided wooden structure attached to the walls of the Dolores and San Miguel Canyons, at a level of 150 to 400 feet above the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers.