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| Dawson cabin was recently rehabilitated and features a wood stove and picnic table inside. Visitors need to bring water, lanterns, bedding to enjoy their stay. |
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| The $50 a night cabin has a clean, well lit outhouse and a picnic table, fire-pit and a level tent site behind it. Visit www.recreation.gov to reserve for your next vacation. |
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| The cabin floor is bare concrete and requires an insulated sleeping pad or mattress to provide comfort, warmth and a decent night's sleep. This air mattress would have worked better with a couple of closed cell foam pads spread out beneath it. |
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| Wildlife visit the cabin too. |
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| Dawson cabin is just 20 miles north of Buena Vista, Colo. near the historic mining town of Winfield in the San Isabel National Forest. |
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| Winfield's one room school house where according to the pamphlet in the window working conditions for female school teachers were draconian and required them to avoid almost all contact with men. |
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| The nearby Arkansas river provides plenty of public access and stunning scenery. |
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| The Arkansas river provides plenty of good fishing including feisty, resident brown trout that readily take a well-placed fly. Photo by Bill Diven. |
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| Nearby Clear Creek Reservoir also provided good fishing with a Pistol Pete beneath a bubble producing plenty of strikes. For more information about the fishery visit the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website. Photo by Bill Diven. |
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| Neighboring Buena Vista offers plenty of services including a supermarket, fly shop, restaurants and free wi-fi at the community center. For more information about Buena Vista and outdoor recreation opportunities in the area visit www.buenavistacolorado.org. |
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| Colorado brook trout. |
