Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Salida Cryptids: A Field Guide
A lovingly fake field guide to Chaffee County cryptids, with a quiz that assembles a creature from your answers.
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- Salida visitors and local folklore fans
- Worth noticing
- Six donor species supply a head, body, and tail, yielding 216 possible cryptids; the site says six are suspiciously ordinary.
Field notes
The quiz asks visitors to make two selections across six questions: the answer most like them, then one that is also a bit like them. The guide describes seasonal patterns including otter-bodied specimens during runoff and retriever tails amid Highway 50 leaf-peeping traffic. Its bylaws ask people to yield to anything with bighorn parts and keep photographs blurry.
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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