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The James M. Robb – Colorado River State Park is a Colorado State Park along the Colorado River in Mesa County near Grand Junction, Colorado. The 890-acre (3.6 km 2) park established in 1994 has five distinct sections providing access to the river. The Island Acres segment has campsites and a swim beach. The Fruita segment also has campsites.
This is a list of the state parks in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state park system to accommodate both outdoor recreation and tourism. There are currently forty-two parks open to the public, and there are others in development. [1] Colorado State Parks host over eleven million visitors each year.
Highline Lake State Park is a Colorado state park. It is home to two lakes, [ 2 ] Highline Lake, elevation 4,702 feet (1,433 m) [ 3 ] and Mack Mesa Lake, elevation 4,728 feet (1,441 m). [ 4 ] It is well known for its birdwatching opportunities and has two wildlife migratory waterfowl overlook kiosks where it is possible to watch great blue ...
Colorado National Monument is a National Park Service unit near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinyon and juniper forests on the plateau.
Chimney Rock National Monument [c] near Pagosa Springs (September 21, 2012, Obama) Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction and Fruita (May 24, 1911, Taft) Dinosaur National Monument [d] near Dinosaur (80 acres October 4, 1915, Wilson, additional 200,000 acres July 14, 1938, F. Roosevelt)
1937 – The state legislature appointed a land board to create the first State Parks Board. 1951 – The State Parks Board leased Cherry Creek recreation area from the Army Corps of Engineers. 1963 – State Parks was merged with the Division of Wildlife. 1971 – The State Recreational Trails Program was created. 1972 – State Parks and the ...
Castlewood Canyon State Park is a Colorado state park near Franktown, Colorado. The park retains a unique part of Colorado's history, the remains of Castlewood Canyon Dam. Visitors can still see the remnants and damage from that dam which burst in 1933. The event sent a 15-foot (5 m) wave of water all the way to downtown Denver resulting in a ...
The city of Grand Junction was so named because of its position at the junction of the Gunnison and Grand Rivers. The Green and Grand Rivers united in eastern Utah to become the Colorado River. The Grand River was renamed Colorado River by act of the Colorado State Legislature , approved March 24, 1921, and made official July 25, 1921 in House ...