County Road T (Saguache County, Colorado)

Saguache County Road T is a county road in Saguache County, Colorado that crosses the San Luis Valley east-west.
Eastwards from where it crosses Colorado State Highway 17 at Moffat, Colorado it serves two principal destinations, Crestone, Colorado and a subdivision named Baca Grande.
Baca Grande is a subdivision, running along County Road T, of the original , used for cattle ranching for the previous hundred years, purchased and subdivided by David Lockton's Arizona-Colorado Land and Cattle Company in 1971, and incorporated on 1972-12-18.
Originally marketed as having an airport, hotel, golf course, gold mine tourist attraction, and rodeo, this was not to be the case for very long.
The airport returned to the ranch; the rodeo became a baseball field; the gold mine became the property of the Manitou; and the hotel was sold.
It now comprises some 600 residences, a lake (Lago del Oro), a 9-hole golf course, some small businesses, a satellite facility of Colorado College, and more than a dozen spiritual retreat centres.
The golf course and businesses form a commercial strip running alongside County Road T to the north.
To the south, County Road T borders the Great Sand Dunes National Park, and has two access roads from it into the park and informal pedestrian access into the park proper.
Park visitors parking on the access roads can cause nuisances to local residents; and it is illegal to park in the Baca Grande subdivision across the road to gain access to the park.
Traffic on the road is not measured, but a 2006 United States National Park Service estimate was that traffic along the road for the Park was "small in comparison to traffic generated by the Crestone/Baca Grande community; their guests, construction contractors, and recreation visitors to the national forest; and guests and staff of the spiritual organizations, monasteries, and retreat centres in the community".

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