Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “parks monuments”
Curecanti National Recreation Area, established in 1965, located in West Central Colorado and includes three reservoirs: Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal. Blue Mesa is the largest body of water in Colorado, being 20 miles in length with 96 miles of …
Cortez Basecamp Sponsors Yucca House National Monument preserves one of the largest archaeological sites in southwestern Colorado. The ruin was first visited by William H. Holmes in 1875 with the US Geological Expedition. He named the piles of rubble, Aztec …
Created by President Obama, on September 12, 2012, Chimney Rock National Monument consists of 4,726 acres in the San Juan National Forest of south central Colorado. The Monument preserves 200 ancient building sites of the Ancestral Puebloan people. Chimney Rock’s …
Located in northwestern Colorado and eastern Utah, Dinosaur National Monument protects more than 800 paleontological sites. President Woodrow Wilson declared the monument on October 4, 1915. In 1938, the Monument expanded by over 200,000 acres to provide additional preservation and …
Located just east of Montrose is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, a 12 mile section of the one of the deepest canyons in North America. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park showcases a 12 mile …
The high desert of the Colorado Plateau is fully exposed in the park, with sandstone canyons composed of sandstone layers of Entrada, Wingate and Kayenta. The Monument offers a condensed version of the country sandstone which is characteristic of the …
Located just to the north of Montrose and northeast of Delta, this National Conservation Area boasts 62,844 acres. Contained within the NCA is the Gunnison Gorge Wilderness Area, which preserves 17,784 acres of Colorado River corridor. Both the NCA and …
Located just to the south of Highway 50, between Delta and Grand Junction, the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area consists of 210,172 acres of south to north red sandstone canyons which drop into the Colorado River. Within the NCA is the …
Cortez Basecamp Sponsors Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (americansouthwest.net) Established with the goal of preserving the largest concentration of archaeological sites in the United States, Canyons of the Ancients stretches east and west of Cortez in south western Colorado. …
