Walsenburg has two museums, a municipal swimming pool and a nine hole municipal golf course. Just west of the golf course is Lathrop State Park which has lakes for swimming, boating, windsurfing, and fishing. The Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center and VA Nursing Home are just across the road from Lathrop SP. (2007: the Walsenburg municipal swiming pool is fast becoming an aquatic park with some help from the state and from Great Outdoors Colorado. It's going to be gorgeous when it's done!)

The San Isabel National Forest is south and west of town, around the Spanish Peaks and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. North of town Greenhorn Mountain and most of the Wet Mountains are also part of the National Forest. Due south about 10 miles are the Black Hawk State Trust Lands. (The photo to the right is the original Walsenburg jail, now the Walsenburg Mining Museum.)

• Elevation: 6,126 feet
• Average annual precipitation: 15.8 inches
• Terrain: An irregular plateau broken by numerous narrow fertile valleys in the east, rising to the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the west and the Spanish Peaks in the south
  
• January temperature: High: 48 Low: 19
• July temperature: High: 91 Low 58
• Days of Sunshine per year: 300+
• Walsenburg Population 2000 census: 4,182
• Huerfano County Population 2000 census: 7,862