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Land's End Observatory is a ranger observatory on the rim of Grand Mesa in Colorado. It is accessible from the Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway via Land's End Road, [2] which is about half paved and half gravel. The observatory is about 10 miles west of Colorado State Highway 65. Land's End Road descends as an all-gravel road from the ...
The highway along with a road to Lands End Overlook were designated as the Grand Mesa National Scenic Byway in 1996. [2] SH 65's southern terminus is at SH 92 east of Delta , and its northern terminus is at Interstate 70 (I-70) and U.S. Route 6 (US 6) northeast of Palisade .
The Grand Mesa National Scenic Byway is a 63-mile (101 km) National Scenic Byway, National Forest Scenic Byway, and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Delta and Mesa counties, Colorado, USA. The byway traverses Grand Mesa, the most extensive flat-topped mountain on Earth, and reaches an elevation of 10,849 feet (3,307 m). The byway ...
Location of Mesa County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mesa County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
The southern portion of the loop follows SH 92 to its intersection with US 50 near Blue Mesa Reservoir, continues along US 50 to Gunnison, and then returns north to Crested Butte via SH 135. From Crested Butte, one can only complete the full loop back to SH 133 in summer months, when unpaved Gunnison County Road 12 is plowed over Kebler Pass.
The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States. It is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world. [ 1 ] It has an area of about 500 square miles (1,300 km 2 ) and stretches for about 40 miles (60 km) east of Grand Junction between the Colorado River and the Gunnison River , its tributary to the south.
Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests Uncompahgre National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 955,229 acres (1,492.55 sq mi, or 3,865.68 km 2 ) [ 1 ] in (in descending order of land area) parts of Montrose , Mesa , San Miguel , Ouray , Gunnison , Hinsdale , San Juan , and Delta Counties in western Colorado .
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