Piedra, CO

Piedra is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States. The 2020 census counted 31 residents. The Pagosa Springs post office serves the area. The Piedra Post Office was established in 1879, and remained in operation until 1927. Pagosa Springs High School is the comprehensive high school. The short version is that Piedra carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Piedra: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Piedra is a name derived from Spanish meaning "stone". The Piedra CDP occupies the southeast corner of Hinsdale County in the valley of the Piedra River within San Juan National Forest. Piedra is at the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains.