Bustang Outrider moves Trinidad stop, adjusts schedule for Amtrak connections
Bustang Outrider shifted Trinidad riders to 110 Pine Street and retimed the Pueblo run, tightening the transfer to Amtrak at the county’s rail stop.
Bustang Outrider moved its Trinidad stop to 110 Pine Street and retimed the Trinidad-Pueblo route to better match Amtrak arrivals and departures, a change that took effect Monday, July 6. For riders in Las Animas County, the move changes where to catch the bus and how they line up with rail service at the Trinidad Amtrak Station.
The new stop is in a CDOT parking lot next to the station, replacing the earlier Trinidad address listed on Bustang’s May 2025 map and schedule, 516 E. Elm St. Bustang said all Trip #1 times in both directions moved back 30 minutes, while all Trip #2 times in both directions moved up 20 minutes.
The Trinidad-Pueblo route is one of Bustang’s rural-access connections and links Trinidad, Aguilar, Walsenburg, Colorado City and Pueblo. Bustang lists the service as operating Monday through Friday, which makes the timing change especially important for workers, students and anyone trying to make a same-day trip for appointments or regional errands.
The new setup puts Bustang closer to the Amtrak station’s enclosed waiting area and accessible platform. Amtrak’s station information for Trinidad says the site has no Wi-Fi, no parking and no wheelchair available, details that make the adjacent CDOT lot more significant for pickup and drop-off logistics than a stop farther away would be.
For riders familiar with the old E. Elm Street location, the shift to 110 Pine Street creates a real wayfinding issue if printed schedules, old directions or memory still point to the previous stop. In a town where the bus and train handoff can be the difference between a smooth connection and a missed ride, the address change is as important as the timetable change.
The update also underscores how thin the transit network is across southern Colorado. In Trinidad, a single stop relocation can affect access not just for downtown riders but for people heading to work in Pueblo, to medical appointments outside the county, or to connections farther along the corridor.
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