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Box office. $1.4 million (US rentals) [1] Along the Great Divide is a 1951 American Western starring Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar and Walter Brennan. Directed by Raoul Walsh, it was Douglas's first Western, a genre that served him well during his long career. In a 1986 interview with David Letterman, it was one of two movies Kirk told ...
Website. gardenofgods.com. U.S. National Natural Landmark. Designated. 1971. Garden of the Gods (Arapaho: Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i) is a 1,341.3 acre public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. [1] 862 acres (3.49 km 2) of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971. [2]
38°49′40″N 106°24′33″W / 38.82778°N 106.40917°W / 38.82778; -106.40917. A. Cottonwood Pass. 12,126 ft (3,696 m) Chaffee County Road 306 and Gunnison County Road 209. Until 2019, the highest unpaved road crossing of a pass in Colorado; now the highest paved crossing of Divide in US.
Location in Colorado. Wolf Creek Pass is a high mountain pass on the Continental Divide, in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It is the route through which U.S. Highway 160 passes from the San Luis Valley into southwest Colorado on its way to New Mexico and Arizona. The pass is notable as inspiration of a C. W. McCall song.
The film was shot largely in the Rocky Mountains, mostly at altitudes between 9,000 and 14,000 feet (2,743 and 4,267 meters), north of Durango, Colorado near Purgatory and Molas Pass, the main location sites. [5] The narration of the adult Chip Mitchell in the film was the suggestion of MGM producer Sam Zimbalist. [6]
Hoosier Pass (elevation 11,542 ft (3,518 m)) is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. The name derives from the Hoosier Gulch, which was worked by men from Indiana, nicknamed the " Hoosier State". [ 2 ][ 3 ] The pass is located on the Continental Divide at the northern end of the Mosquito ...
The Western Slope region is sparsely populated, containing 38% of Colorado's area but only 10.7% of its population. The region had a population of 563,138 in July 2013, an increase of 0.6% on the previous year, and had a low growth rate over the previous three years compared to the rest of the state. [ 6 ]
Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 54 fourteeners, mountains more than 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above sea level. The massif rises over 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. It is composed of a characteristic pink granite called Pikes Peak granite.