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Serpents Trail, unknown date. The trail was built by the visionary John Otto, who began the campaign to establish the national monument.The trail was, in fact, a road from Grand Junction through No Thoroughfare Canyon to the rimrock near Cold Shivers Point, with an elevation gain of nearly 1,100 feet (340 m) over 2.5 miles (4.0 km).
Mt. Garfield [3] is the high point of the Book Cliffs, east-northeast of Grand Junction, and overlooking the town of Palisade. Two classic hiking trails ascend the mountain. The mountain was named after President James Garfield a year after Garfield's death. The mountain is composed of Mesaverde Group overlaying Mancos Shale.
The McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (MCNCA) is a 123,400-acre (499 km 2) National Conservation Area located in Mesa County, west of Grand Junction, Colorado.The MCNCA has rugged sandstone canyons, natural arches, spires, and alcoves carved into the Colorado Plateau, through which runs a 24-mile (39 km) stretch of the Colorado River.
Colorado National Monument is a National Park Service unit near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinyon and juniper forests on the plateau.
The Dominguez–Escalante National Conservation Area is a 209,610-acre (848.3 km 2) National Conservation Area located in western Colorado southeast of Grand Junction and northwest of Montrose. [1] It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and was created as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. [2]
The following hiking trail across the Southern Rocky Mountains is maintained by the Colorado Trail Foundation. Colorado Trail The following three single-track mountain bike trails are maintained by the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association and the Bureau of Land Management .