Delta, Colorado
Ute Council Tree
The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.
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Delta, Colorado
The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.
Montrose, Colorado
A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Lake City, Colorado
This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.
Lake City, Colorado
The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.
Ouray, Colorado
A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.
Telluride, Colorado
This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.
Dolores, Colorado
Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.
Bedrock, Colorado
A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.
Paradox, Colorado
The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.
Uravan, Colorado
Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.
Bedrock, Colorado
A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.
Gateway, Colorado
A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.
Moab, Utah
A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Mogollon, New Mexico
Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
The last sailing lobster boat in Maine is also likely New England's first zero-emissions commercial vessel.