Pagosa Junction, elevation 6,267 feet (1,910 meters), is a railroad ghost town in Archuleta County, Colorado, U.S.[1] Originally established as a stop on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's Alamosa–Durango line (also called the San Juan Extension), the location was originally called Gato when a station house was first built there in 1881.

It was a logging railroad, bringing timber and lumber from the Pagosa Springs area to the main line in Gato.

In 1899, as the population grew to 200 people, a post office was built in Gato, and the name was changed to Pagosa Junction.

However, the branch to Pagosa Springs closed in the 1930s, and the town's population began to decline.

[4] The town now lies on Southern Ute Indian Reservation land.