Nine pages of images from multiple venues across Colorado. This page includes images from Mesa Verde National Park and Garden of the Gods Park. Subsequent pages include images from views along I-70 and Grand Junction, Colorado National Monument, Burlington, and Pueblo.
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Mesa Verde National Park - Mesa Verde, Colorado
September 18, 2008

View from within the park
[Several photographs stitched together displaying a scenic view with mountains on the right and the valley floor way below on the left.]

Sleeping Ute Mountain, the highest point in the park at over 8500 feet elevation, is seen from Fire Tower parking lot.
[Vista view with two levels of mountains. In the foreground coming from the left is a rocky incline which is covered in greenery at the top. In the middle ground on the right is the valley floor. In the far distance is a row of mountains with a big hump (Sleeping Ute)in the middle.]

Townsend's ground squirrel
[Brown squirrel with many small white spots on its fur is perched high in a leafless tree with grey-white bark. The squirrel has a long bushy tail.]

Pipe Shrine House is part of the Far View sites section of the park. (The park is the home of many pueblo buildings.)
[Upper parts of dwellings.]

Close view of Pipe Shrine House
[Sub-surface parts of dwellings made entirely of stone/adobe circular pits in the ground.]

Part of Coyote Village
[Sub-surface parts of dwellings which are made of wood railings as wells as the adobe/stone bricks.]

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Garden of the Gods Park - Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 28, 2009

View of red rocks in the park with people on path (in center bottom of image)
[Huge red cliff-rock projections contrast with a very blue sky with white clouds.]

More red rocks
[Thin sheets of rock set on the landscape.]

Unusual rock formation
[A large red cliff-like rock with a section at the top with a hole in the middle. There is some greenery growing at lower levels along ledges, but it's a nearlly all reddish rock.]

Snow capped mountains in the distance
[Image includes three layers of rock. In the far distance are the highest peaks which are covered in snow. In the middle distance are shorter mountains which are covered in greenery. In the foreground are the red rocks which only have vegetation at the foot of them. There is a low section of red rock in the middle of the image creating an opening to more clearly see the middle distance mountains. The sky is nearly completely covered in white clouds although the foreground of the image is very sunny.]

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