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Navajo Peak, as seen from the top of Pawnee Peak. The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a 73,931 acre wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Example of a National Park Passport Stamp for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the 433 units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Service's affiliated areas.
A section of the “Scotsman” trail at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Last week I mentioned I was on a road trip. Well this week I arrived at my destination: Colorado Springs.
Blodgett Peak was named for a family that settled in an area now part of the Air Force Academy in the 19th century. [3]It was the 1959 runner-up site for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Hardened Combat Operations Center to the command center built in Cheyenne Mountain.
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Inspiration Point, Colorado Springs. There are two hiking trails that begin at the top of Seven Falls. They are open from May through October until 7 p.m. The Inspiration Point trail is a 1-mile-long (1.6 km) winding trail to Inspiration Point and takes about one hour round trip. There are views of the city of Colorado Springs and the plains.
Flowstone & draperies Helictites (Cave of the Winds, Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA) As the water table dropped within the cave system air began to fill the passageways and caverns. Stalactites formed on the cave's ceilings as calcium carbonate-rich water dripped leaving thin calcite rings that grew into icicle-like shapes over thousands of years.
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 ...