Trinidad is a beautiful town, but it, sadly, has moonbat Democrat politics.
A state in the toilet because of its massive infestation by well-off leftists and their rotten spawn. One need go no further than CO’s village idiot CEO, Gov. Chickenpooper.
Trinidad is a cesspool and has been since it began as a coal mining town. It harboured such unlovely scum as Frank James,The Marloe gang, , the Daltons, Doc Holliday and many more of the old west banditti. The miners from Europe were kept in squalor and near slavery until well into the 20th century. Now, Trinidad is infested with street gangs. But one thing is for sure, the Democrats own it.
Trinidad is a dump.
I know. I’ve spent a couple of years of my life there.
It’s a dump.
There’s some beautiful natural scenery, but the town is a festering dump. It is lock-step unionized, and the unions have gamed the contractor/trades employment situation so badly that no one repairs their real estate because it a) costs too much to have a “licensed contractor” do it, and b) they can’t get it past inspections without having a licensed contractor do it.
The only nice real estate or well-kept houses are pretty much in a three block square under the Trinidad sign on the hill northwest of town. Other than that, nice properties are dotted here and there around town, mostly surrounded by clapped-out, falling-down, ramshackle shacks.
Once you’ve been around enough towns in the American west, you can tell whether you’re in a town that started from an agrarian base or a mining base. The mining towns always look rougher. Matter of fact, most mining towns, even when there is active, economically prosperous mining happening right now, look like crap. Miners don’t give a flying fig whether they live in a slum or not.
In Southern Colorado, it is mostly union mining towns, and they’re a special subset of the run-down armpits that are mining towns.