Eagles Nest Development a Private Community
We see it as the best of both worlds. Eagles Nest Development is far enough away yet close enough to a town when you need it. As far as small towns go,  it is hard to find any better than Cortez, Dolores, Durango and Mancos.

Cortez, a town rich in History

Navajos call Cortez, "Tsaya-tohwhich" means rock-water. This same spring that watered Navajo sheep attracted ranchers to what they in turn called Mitchell Springs. The name was changed when the town was founded in 1886. Ranching and farming were the mainstays of the economy, with an occasional visitor exploring Indian ruins that were everywhere.

Today Cortez is the service center for the richest archaeological area in the United States.

Dolores came from Big Bend
Mesa Verde Country first came to the awareness of Europeans in 1776 when Franciscan friars, Dominguez and Escalante, traveled from Santa Fe trying to find a route to Monterey, California.

Big Bend was the original town along the Dolores river. The town sat in a curve of the river below the Anasazi ruins that Escalante and Dominguez camped in a century earlier. When the Rio Grande Southern Railroad bypassed the town, Big Bend was abandoned and the townspeople moved upstream to found the present town of Dolores

Durango the wild west to the 21 Century
Just saying Durango out loud makes one feel as if the are in the wild west.

Once a frontier mining town, established in 1881, Durango is set on the Animas River in the afternoon shadows of the San Juan Mountains. Here, at the edge of a great desert mesa, warm breezes meet the cool lush forests of the mountains that frame the community with spectacular scenery. Classic 19th century hotels, Victorian architecture, saloons and hitching posts give downtown Main Avenue distinctive charm.

Mancos was a bustling frontier
Mancos has a  colorful and exciting history for a small town in the high country of southwestern Colorado. It still speaks in many ways of the Old West. Ranches with miles of split rail fences, old cabin and bunkhouse timbers, tumbled railroad ties and the remains of what must always have been rickety wooden railroad trestles, can still be found in the back country, along with tailings piles left with the abandoned hopes of many a hardworking miner.

Community Information
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Education

	Fort Lewis College, Durango
	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
	San Juan Basin Technical School, Cortez
	Montezuma County High School, Cortez
	Dolores High School, Dolores
	Durango High School, Durango
	Mancos High School, Mancos

Churches

	Baptist
	Church of Christ
	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
	Church of the Nazarene
	Christian Science Society
	Cortez Seventh Day Adventist Church
	First United Methodist
	Montezuma Valley Presbyterian
	Episcopal
	Lutheran

Organizations

	Lions
	Rotary
	Jaycees
	Elks
	American Legion
	Civitans
	4-H
	Optimist
	Knights of Columbus
	Rebekah
	VFW
	Beta Sigma Phi
	Escalante Shrine Club
	Mason
	Kiwanis

Hospitals-Medical Facilities

	Cortez Hospital, Cortez
	Durango Hospital
	Farmington Hospital, Farmington, New Mexico
	Shiprock Hospital

Airports

	Cortez Airport
	Durango Airport
	Telluride
	Farmington, New Mexico
	Albuquerque, Mew Mexico
	Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lakes Reservoirs and Waterways

	McPhee Reservoir, Cortez
	Dolores River, Cortez-Dolores
	Vallecito Lake, Durango
	Animas River, Durango
	Ground Hog Reservoir, Dolores
	Totten Lake, Cortez
	Naraquinnip Lake, Cortez
	Joe Moore Lake, Dolores
	Summit Lake, Dolores
	Jackson Lake, Mancos

Hotels Motels Bed and Breakfast

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