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The Buena Vista Correctional Facility, also known as Buena Vista Correctional Complex, is a state prison for men located in Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The facility opened as an adult prison in 1978, and houses 871 inmates at medium and close security levels, along with ...
Buena Vista Correctional Facility (826 inmate capacity) (Buena Vista) Centennial Correctional Facility (604 inmate capacity) (Cañon City) (Maximum security/mental health facility) Colorado Correctional Center (Camp George West) (150 inmate capacity) Colorado State Penitentiary (756 inmate capacity) (Cañon City) (Maximum Security facility)
Buena Vista is located in central Colorado roughly midway between Salida and Leadville in the Upper Arkansas River Valley at an elevation of 7,965 feet (2,428 m). The area between Buena Vista and Salida is often referred to as the Denver & Rio Grande, South Park & Pacific, and Colorado Midland railroads. Many of the existing buildings of Buena ...
Central Colorado Regional Airport (ICAO: KAEJ, FAA LID: AEJ) is a public-use airport located 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Buena Vista, Colorado, United States. [1]Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA, ICAO and IATA, Central Colorado Regional Airport is assigned AEJ by the FAA and KAEJ by the ICAO but has no designation from the IATA.
It is one of 25 prisons in the Colorado Department of Corrections system, and one of seven in and around Cañon City. The oldest of the seven, originally built in 1871 and predating Colorado's statehood, was the original State Penitentiary. [citation needed] This was the site of Colorado's death row, and the 1929 prison riot.
Buena Vista: 7: Brown's Canyon Bridge: Brown's Canyon Bridge: July 30, 2013 : County Road 191 crossing the Arkansas River: Salida: 8: Buena Vista Ranger Station: Buena Vista Ranger Station: March 2, 2022 : 410 East Main St.
Johnson Village is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population of the Johnson Village CDP was 299 at the United States Census 2020. [3] The Buena Vista post office (Zip Code 81211) serves the area. [4]
On its southwestern side, at the southern end of the Mosquito Range, it is connected by Trout Creek Pass to the upper valley of the Arkansas River near Buena Vista. U.S. Highway 24 enters South Park from the east at Wilkerson Pass, where the highway provides vehicle access to Colorado Springs. To the very south, CO Route 9 crosses Currant Creek ...