The movie A River Runs Through It is filled with stunning, pristine mountain streams and forest glades which server as the backdrop for great fishing scenes. Although the story ends in tragedy, the sweeping panoramic vistas touch something deep inside all of us who love and cherish the mountains.

The San Luis Valley is defined in many ways by the great river, the Rio Grande. It has shaped not only the mountainous areas surrounding us but also the wide fertile valley stretching out below, a compilation of countless eons of rain and snowfall runoff. Destructive in its raging floods; life giving in its supply to area farms; the river lives on through abundance and drought.