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CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Museum, 780 Heritage Way, Grand Junction Regional Airport 39°07′04″N 108°31′31″W / 39.117778°N 108.525278°W / 39.117778; -108.525278 ( TBM Avenger Aircraft
Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.The city has a council–manager form of government. [8] It is a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide, and the largest city in Colorado outside of the Front Range Corridor.
The Lindenmeier site, the largest known Paleo-Indian Folsom site, [7] contained artifacts of the Paleo-Indians who lived and hunted in the present Fort Collins area approximately 11,000 years ago. Some of the artifacts are identified from people of the Folsom tradition , named for the Folsom site in New Mexico , and identified as such by the ...
A lightning strike ignites the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins. The wildfire will kill one person and destroy 248 homes and 87,250 acres (353 km 2) of forest. April 28: The History Colorado Center opens in Denver. March 16: Lindsey Vonn of Vail wins her fourth International Ski Federation Women's Overall World Cup. 2011: November 18
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century.
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. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations.
The district has two major population centers, in Grand Junction and Pueblo. The two cities and their surrounding rural areas provide a competitive arena for congressional races. Grand Junction, on the Western Slope , is a Republican stronghold, while Pueblo, a town with a large Latino population and (by Colorado norms) a heavily unionized ...
Prehistory of Colorado provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Colorado's recorded history. Colorado experienced cataclysmic geological events over billions of years, which shaped the land and resulted in diverse ecosystems. The ecosystems included several ice ages, tropical oceans, and a massive volcanic eruption.