The Del Norte to Lake City and Saguache to Silverton toll roads pass here. Once home for as many as 1,000 pronghorn antelope, the stop was established in 1875 at a large salt lick. The antelope were killed for meat by early prospectors and slaughtered by 1883. The Antelope Springs Stage Stop was once known as Alden Station for Postmaster George Alden who was killed by the new postmaster’s son, Montie Moreland, after an argument that took place when his mother called George’s wife, “A Hussy!” The Broken Arrow Guest Ranch is all that’s left of the Stage Stop, which faded with the arrival of the railroad in 1882.
