Colorado National Parks

Colorado National Parks:

Mesa Verde National Park is located in the four corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Ancestral Pueblo people lived in Mesa Verde for 700 years between AD 550 to 1200’s. They built elaborate communities in sheltered alcoves of the canyon walls.

Great Sand Dunes National Park is located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado. Here you will find high mountain peaks, sparkling streams, forceful winds, and billions grains of sand. These dunes are the tallest in North America and lots of fun too!

Rocky Mountain National Park. The Rocky Mountains form one of the world’s longest ranges, stretching almost from Alaska to below the nation’s southern border.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is an awesome gorge with sheer walls plunging to the roaring river below. The river drops 480 feet in a two-mile stretch. The greatest depth is 2,722 feet. The narrowest width at the river is 40 feet. The total length of the canyon is 48 miles.

Uncompahgre River

Cortez, CO Campsite

Howdy Pilgrim

Curecanti National Recreation Area contains three reservoirs; Blue Mesa (Colorado’s largest body of water and the nation’s largest kokanee salmon fishery), Morrow Point (generates most of the power) and Crystal (maintains an even flow through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison).