Maybe, but don't let the locals hear you say it. It's true, and you know it as soon as you arrive, that there are a great many things about Crestone, Colorado-a tiny town with an abundance of raw spirit-that fly in the face of even Boulder. The comparisons begin and end, perhaps, with Crestone's astounding concentration of spiritual seekers, Buddhists, alternative healers, silver-haired hippies and barefoot, dread-locked mothers with baby backpacks.
The small, progressive community of less than 100 people rests against the slopes of the Sangre de Cristos in Colorado's San Luis Valley, with dramatic and much-photographed Crestone Peak presiding, and unofficially consists of the town of Crestone and the adjacent rural Baca Grande land grant development. Outside its boundaries, ranch land, jagged mountains and one-horse Colorado towns insulate it from the urbanization, and what many have considered bastardization, that has changed Boulder dramatically over the years.
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