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Sasquatch Outpost

Bailey, Colorado

A Bigfoot gift shop with a museum out back: track casts, a pinned map of trusted Colorado sightings and the infamous "Tremendous Turd".

The creature

Bigfootaka Sasquatch, SkookumA huge, hair-covered, upright ape said to roam North American forests.

Nearby

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