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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 High Rockies, or high country, is a term for a region of the U.S. state of Colorado.It commonly includes Larimer County, Jackson County, Routt County, Grand County, Summit County, Eagle County, Lake County, and Pitkin County.
Pine Junction is situated in the foothills of the Front Range south of Mount Blue Sky, approximately 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Denver along U.S. Highway 285. The community sits astride the Park - Jefferson county line, and is situated at the crest of a hill on the highway, east of where the highway drops from Crow Hill down into the Platte ...
The Pine Gulch Fire was a wildfire that burned in Mesa County and Garfield County, Colorado in the United States. The fire was started by a lightning strike and first reported on July 31, 2020, and quickly grew, resulting in the fire being named the largest wildfire in Colorado history, surpassing the 2002 Hayman Fire . [ 3 ]
It is the largest country music and camping festival in the state. [1] Country Jam is a four-day "rain or shine" event. The festival is held at the Country Jam Ranch, a 240-acre (0.97 km 2) ranch and music festival concert venue located near Loma, Colorado, 21 miles northwest of Grand Junction.
Mesa County comprises the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2020 it ranked as the 271st most populous metropolitan area in the United States . [ 2 ] It is the only metropolitan area in Colorado not located on the Front Range .
The functional Government High Line Canal, also known as the Grand Valley Project, runs along the settled northern edge of the Grand Valley near Grand Junction, Colorado. The canal was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and is owned by the federal government, through authorization of the 1902 Reclamation Act.
State Highway 340 (SH 340) is a 13.341 mi (21.470 km) long state highway in the U.S. state of Colorado.The highway's western end is at U.S. Route 6 (US 6) and US 50 in Fruita, and the eastern end is at the junction of US 50 and I-70 Business (I-70 Bus.) in Grand Junction.