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Gunnison is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gunnison County, Colorado. [1] [6] The city population was 6,560 at the 2020 United States Census. [3] The city was named in honor of John W. Gunnison, a United States Army officer who surveyed for a transcontinental railroad in 1853. [7]
Gunnison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census , the population was 16,918. [ 1 ] The county seat is Gunnison . [ 2 ]
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison was established as a national monument on March 2, 1933. It was redesignated a national park on October 21, 1999, [27] and incorporated 4,000 acres owned by the Bureau of Land Management. [28] The Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area was created at the same time.
Location of Gunnison County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gunnison County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
The landform is located 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Gunnison in the West Elk Wilderness on land managed by Gunnison National Forest. These 500-ft high pillars are the signature landmark of the West Elk Wilderness, [ 4 ] and are one of Colorado's most unique rock formations. [ 5 ]
Blue Mesa Reservoir is an artificial reservoir located on the upper reaches of the Gunnison River in Gunnison County, Colorado.The largest lake located entirely within the state, Blue Mesa Reservoir was created by the construction of Blue Mesa Dam, a 390 feet (120 m) tall earthen fill dam constructed on the Gunnison by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1966 for the generation of hydroelectric ...
State Highway 149 (SH 149) is a 117.522-mile-long (189.133 km) state highway in southwestern Colorado, United States.SH 149's southern terminus is at U.S. Highway 160 (US 160) in South Fork, and the northern terminus is at US 50 west of Gunnison.
Morrow Point Dam is a 468-foot-tall (143 m) concrete double-arch dam on the Gunnison River located in Colorado, the first dam of its type built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Located in the upper Black Canyon of the Gunnison, it creates Morrow Point Reservoir, and is within the National Park Service-operated Curecanti National Recreation Area.