Buena Vista, Colorado, unique part of the World

Picture a quiet little town surrounded by snow capped mountains that you feel you could almost touch.

With, at this time of year at the start of the snow melt, a raging white water stream called the Arkansas river that drains down south east through this state through Kansas and eventually into the Mississippi. Plenty of rafts and canoes waiting for some more negotiable water without the limbs and logs roaring down right now .

It is warm and the air is thin at 9000 ft in this desert town that only gets about 6 inches a year .

A history of ranching, mining and even market gardening with the rich underground water . Was a major source of lettuce growing when the vegetable was loaded into boxcars and packed with blocks of ice cut out of natural ice source that was stored in insulated storage sheds at the rail heads of three different rail companies at one time .

Now it is a tourist haven for skiers in the winter , Hunting in the season and retirement in this very pleasant Rocky Mountain climate.