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Cañon City straddles the easterly flowing Arkansas River and is a popular tourist destination for sightseeing, whitewater rafting, and rock climbing. The city is known for its many public parks, fossil discoveries, Skyline Drive, The Royal Gorge railroad, the Royal Gorge, and extensive natural hiking paths. [10]
At its headwaters beginning near Leadville, Colorado, the Arkansas runs as a steep fast-flowing mountain river through the Rockies in its narrow valley, dropping 4,600 feet (1,400 m) in 120 miles (190 km). [12] This section supports extensive whitewater rafting, including The Numbers (near Granite, Colorado), Brown's Canyon, and the Royal Gorge.
The Arkansas River flows through Parkdale, and it is home to whitewater rafting and the Parkdale Recreation Area, a unit of the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area.The Royal Gorge Route Railroad, which starts in Cañon City, turns around in Parkdale and heads back again through the Royal Gorge and back to Cañon City. [2]
The recreation area includes sections in and near the Colorado towns of Buena Vista, Salida, Cañon City and Florence. The recreation area includes parts of Browns Canyon National Monument, established in 2015. The national monument is accessible through the recreation area's Ruby Mountain and Hecla Junction river sites.
Gore Canyon, elevation 6,985 feet (2,129 m), [1] is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. Steep and rugged, the approximately 3-mile-long (4.8 km) gorge was carved by the river as it passed the northern end of the Gore Range southwest of Kremmling .
It was one of the first white water events in the U.S. and helped popularize whitewater sports there, compared to the well-developed whitewater competition in Europe. The original race was held on June 19, 1949, and was a 57-mile course from Salida to Canon City on the headwaters of the Arkansas River.
Cotopaxi is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Cotopaxi post office has the ZIP Code 81223. [4]
South-Central Colorado is a region of the U.S. state of Colorado. [1] It can be roughly defined by Chaffee County in the northwest, El Paso County in the northeast, Las Animas County in the southeast, and Conejos County in the southwest. [ 2 ]