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The Art Center of Western Colorado, formerly known as The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, is located at 1803 North Seventh Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. Founded in 1953, the art center has a permanent collection comprising mainly regional Western art. Its facilities also include four galleries, a gift shop, two enclosed courtyards ...
I-70, U.S. Highway 6, U.S. Highway 50, CO SH 340, CO SH 141, CO SH 139. Website. www.gjcity.org. Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the seat of government and largest city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] Grand Junction's population was 65,560 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the most populous city in ...
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is part of the Museums of Western Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] The Orchards are known for showing how life was on an orchard at the turn of the twentieth century and is considered living history as ...
1923: "Official newspaper of the county of Mesa" and "Official newspaper of the city of Grand Junction". 1933: Instead of a slogan, the Sentinel ran above its banner, "Yesterday's press run" which was about 6,200 at mid-year. 1943: "Today's news today". 1963: "Read every day by more than 60,000 people in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah".
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 park hosts a wide range of wildlife ...
Mount Garfield (Mesa County, Colorado) 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 ...
Coates Creek Schoolhouse. February 3, 1993. (#92001839) D S Rd., 16 miles (26 km) west of Glade Park. 38°56′55″N 108°58′35″W / 38.948584°N 108.976400°W / 38.948584; -108.976400 (Coates Creek Schoolhouse) Glade Park. One-room schoolhouse. 6. Colorado National Monument Visitor Center Complex.
Mesa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 155,703. [2] The county seat and most populous municipality is Grand Junction. [3] The county was named for the many large mesas in the area, including the Grand Mesa, which is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world.