Hawkins Preserve

Hawkins Preserve is a 122-acre (0.49 km2) property within the city limits of Cortez, Colorado. It is protected by a conservation easement held by the Montezuma Land Conservancy. The property for the preserve was donated to the Cortez Cultural Center in the 1990s by Jack Hawkins which includes: Biological and botanical resources in a pinion-juniper woodland that is bounded by sandstone potholes and McElmo Creek. Prehistoric archaeological sites.