The Town of Crestone is a Statutory Town in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 141 at the 2020 United States Census. Crestone is a little village at the foot of the western face of the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the northern part of the San Luis Valley. Crestone was platted in 1880 by George Adams, owner of the adjoining Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4. In the 1970s the Baca Grande, a large home development, was established on the lands of the Baca Grant to the south and west. Several hundred homes have been built there.

The Crestone area, which includes the Baca Grande and Moffat, Colorado, is a spiritual middle for some religions, including: a Hindu temple, a Zen center, several Tibetan Buddhist centers, and miscellaneous New Age happenings. Much of this spiritual innovation was catalyzed by the couple Hanne Strong and Maurice Strong in the 1970s, who set out to make it an interfaith center.

Activities in the area include camping, fishing, hiking, climbing, as skillfully as spiritual explorations.

Crestone is named for the 14,000-foot peaks that lie just east of the town: Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle. The Crestones, as they are known collectively, in turn, took their say from the Spanish word crestón, which, according to Walter Borneman and Lyndon Lampert’s book A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners, means: “the summit of a cock’s comb”; “the crest of a helmet”; or, in miners’ jargon, “an outcropping of ore”.