Goemmer Butte near La Veta, Colorado

Goemmer Butte in the Cuchara Valley as seen from the Highway of Legends near La Veta, Colorado

Goemmer Butte is a small, but very conspicuous "plug" located near La Veta in the Cuchara Valley of south central Colorado in the shadow of the famous Spanish Peaks. It is named for the Goemmer Brothers ranch, on which the butte/plug is located.

Goemmer Butte as seen from the Highway of Legends near La Veta, Colorado

Goemmer Butte has an elevation of 8,043' and protrudes 1,600' above the surrounding surface.

If you are planning to visit the area in an RV there are several options: Lanthrop State Park a few miles west of I-25 in Walsenburg, or one of two RV-Parks in La Veta, west of Trinidad in Stonewall where there are several RV-Parks, or finally the campground at Monument Lake Resort.

Dike radiating from the Spanish Peaks toward Goemmer Butte as seen from the Highway of Legends

I included this picture of a dike that is pointing at Goemmer Butte. Dikes and plugs (Goemmer Butte is a plug) are geologically very similar. Dikes like this one were created when molten rock deep within the earth pushed up into cracks in the earth's mantle which around here was sedimentary rocks. Plugs are virtually the same except they are shaped more like a plug. Both cool before reaching the surface creating rock that is much harder than the surrounding sedimentary layers. Millions of years pass and the sedimentary rock erodes away exposing the much harder igneous rock that filled the cracks and cooled. Goemmer Butte is a plug that pushed toward the surface in a different shape than these dikes that filled long cracks in the overlying sedimentary rock.

Goemmer Butte as seen from the Highway of Legends near La Veta, Colorado

Goemmer Butte as seen from the Highway of Legends near La Veta, Colorado

I do not know it but I suspect this might be the entrance to the famous Goemmer Brothers Ranch that Goemmer Butte was named for. We can not see a name on this gate so I am just guessing. If you can provide more info you can contact me at ----- info (at) travellogs.us Thanks in advance.

Goemmer Butte as seen from the Highway of Legends near La Veta, Colorado

Joyce took this picture of Goemmer Butte from the Highway of Legends.

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