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11 Porch Notes tagged “national monument,” from counties across Colorado.
Outdoors and wildfire - Chaffee County
Browns Canyon National Monument is public land with dirt-road access
Browns Canyon between Buena Vista and Salida is a national monument run by the BLM and Forest Service, with unpaved access roads and some seasonal closures.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Archuleta County
Chimney Rock National Monument is a seasonal, ancestral place
Chimney Rock National Monument protects an Ancestral Puebloan site between Pagosa Springs and Durango, and it is open only part of the year with rules that protect both the ruins and the living cultures tied to them.
Read note ->History and culture - Eagle County
Camp Hale was where the 10th Mountain Division learned to fight in the snow
The Pando valley in southern Eagle County holds Camp Hale, the WWII training base for the Army's 10th Mountain Division and now part of a national monument.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Mesa County
Colorado National Monument is a national park unit, not a state park
The red-rock monument outside Grand Junction is run by the National Park Service, so its fees, camping, and rules differ from Colorado's state parks.
Read note ->History and culture - Gunnison County
Black Canyon went from monument to national park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison was first protected as a national monument in 1933 and became a national park in 1999. The park named for the Gunnison River sits in neighboring Montrose County.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Montezuma County
Hovenweep is a certified dark-sky park for night skies
Hovenweep National Monument, spanning the Colorado-Utah line west of Cortez, is a certified International Dark Sky Park where very low light pollution makes for clear star viewing.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument lies just north over Tennessee Pass
North of Leadville over Tennessee Pass, Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument protects a World War II mountain-training site and lands that remain culturally important to the Ute people.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Teller County
At Florissant Fossil Beds, the fossils stay where they are
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Teller County protects ancient fossils and petrified stumps, and collecting or removing them there is not allowed.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument honors the 10th Mountain Division
Camp Hale, just over the divide from Summit County, was the World War II training ground for the Army's mountain troops and is now a national monument managed by the Forest Service.
Read note ->History and culture - Mineral County
Wheeler Geologic Area was once Colorado's first national monument
The Wheeler Geologic Area near Creede is a maze of eroded volcanic ash that was protected as Colorado's first national monument before its remoteness led to a different status.
Read note ->History and culture - Montezuma County
Hovenweep's stone towers sit on the Colorado-Utah line
Part of Hovenweep National Monument lies in western Montezuma County, where Ancestral Puebloans built unusual stone towers along canyon rims around AD 1200 to 1300.
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