DURANGO DHARMA CENTER

The San Juan Mountains are often described as the wildest mountains in the lower 48 states. There is nothing like meditating in the pristine wilderness of the San Juan mountains to support a sense of expansiveness and connection to wild nature. The San Juan Mountains and margins are characterized by

• seven wilderness areas encompassing more than 800,000 acres (12 percent of the range) including Weminuche, South San Juan, La Garita, Mount Sneffels, Uncompahgre, Powderhorn and Lizard Head, including the most active avalanche control and snow physics study areas in the United States and is one of the most geologically diverse mountain regions in the world,
• Hesperus Peak that is one of the four Navajo peoples sacred mountains and adjacent Sleeping Ute Mountains,a sacred range of the Southern Utes and Ute Mountain Utes,
• six ski areas, and home to people whose identities are strongly rooted in mountain history, culture and ways of living.