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Branson is a statutory town in Las Animas County, Colorado, incorporated on March 26, 1921.

Branson is the southernmost town in Colorado, lying about one mile north of the New Mexico state line.

The population of Branson was 57 at the 2020 United States census.

At the 2000 census, Branson had 77 residents living in 37 households, with 43 housing units in the town.

The town covers 0.245 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of about 6,270 feet, and its ZIP code is 81027.

Branson lies about 35 miles east of Trinidad on State Highway 389 in the Raton Mesa country of the Great Plains, with Chicora Mesa rising some 800 feet a few hundred feet south of town.

The site was first known as Wilson or Wilson Switch and then Coloflats; the Coloflats post office opened on August 19, 1915, and the name was changed to Branson on July 30, 1918, for Josiah F. Branson, who platted the town on his land.

In the early 1920s Branson boasted about 1,000 people, three grain elevators, a bank and a newspaper, but two fires within a year, drought beginning in 1925 and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s drove a long decline, and the town is now a ranching community.

The town's tiny kindergarten-through-grade-12 school became the base of Branson School Online, which grew into Colorado's second-largest online school, enrolling 1,004 students in the fall of 2003.