page_title: Trapper's Trail
section_title: South and east of El Pueblo
hierarchical_section_title: Trapper's Trail / Route description / South and east of El Pueblo
caption_attribution_description: English: Bent's Fort 1848
context_page_description: The Trapper's Trail or Trappers' Trail is a north-south path along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains that links the Great Platte River Road at Fort Laramie and the Santa Fe Trail at Bent's Old Fort. Along this path there were a number of trading posts, also called trading forts.
context_section_description: From El Pueblo, also called Fort Pueblo, there are two routes. One is east to Bent's Old Fort, the trading post historical site is along the Arkansas River, and the trail follows Highway 50 and the Arkansas River from Pueblo.
  Another route is from El Pueblo to Taos.
  The trail passed near Huerfano Butte, and had a stop at Fort Garland. It is along State Highway 159, though the San Luis Valley, to Taos, New Mexico. The trail was also called Taos Trail.
caption: James William Abert, Bent's Fort, 1848
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