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We left Amarillo around 8 a.m. Friday morning, drove up through the Texas Panhandle, into New Mexico and right past Trinidad, Colorado, we headed west on Scenic 12 going towards Alamosa. Very nice, enjoyable drive. State Highway 12, the Scenic Highway of Legends, ties Trinidad, Weston, Stonewall, Cuchara, La Veta, and Walsenburg together with a ribbon of asphalt that journeys through beautiful mountain countryside. Going west out of Trinidad it passes the Trinidad Lake State Park before entering the Purgatoire River Valley.