CO-17 Paved Pullout — San Luis Valley

The wide, flat expanse of the San Luis Valley stretches out in every direction from this paved pullout along CO-17, with the Sangre de Cristo range providing a dramatic eastern backdrop and famously dark skies overhead after nightfall. It sits about 30 minutes northwest of the Great Sand Dunes National Park entrance, making it a practical staging point for an early-morning dunes visit. The lot is large enough to handle multiple big rigs at once, and cell signal here is consistently strong.