La Junta information

The City of La Junta is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Otero County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,568 at the U.S. Census 2000. La Junta is located in southeast Colorado, on the Arkansas River east of Pueblo. La Junta is home to two well-known museums: Bent's Fort, an important trading post in the old west, and the http://www.koshare.org Koshare Indian Museum, regarded as one of the finest collections of Native American artifacts in the world. The Koshare Indian museum hosts a unique Boy Scout/Explorer program which trains the Scouts in both Indian dance and costumes. The Scouts give dance performances during the summer and also host many other Scout troops passing through the area.
La Junta is also home of the http://www.redibank.com/picketwire.htm Picketwire Center for Performing Arts, which offers a wide variety of culture.
In addition, in World War II La Junta had an Army Air Force Training Base outside town.
The airport, located 5 miles north of La Junta, has 77 acres of tarmac and two runways which are still in use. One runway (east-west) is 6,851 feet long and the other is 5,800 feet. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/la-junta.htm.
The Caboose (right) is the drive through for the State Bank http://www.redibank.com which was established in 1893. The bank is unique as it has been remodeled with antiques, including a teller line from the late 1890s. (...) more....

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