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Colorado Journey Guide: A Driving & Hiking Guide to Ruins, Rock Art, Fossils & Formations
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Overview
It’s out there. Go find it! The Colorado Journey Guide by Jon Kramer and Julie Martinez is your resource to discovering the best of Colorado. Informative and entertaining, this guide leads you to 46 of the most amazing sites and scenery that the Centennial State can offer: majestic mountains, ancient ruins, secret canyons, hidden waterfalls, and exotic places. Jon’s rating system for significance in archaeology, geology, and paleontology ensures that you find the places that are right for you and your interests, while the accompanying information helps you to fully appreciate each location. Plus, Jon’s candid tips help you to see the sites through experienced eyes. Amazing illustrations by Vernon Morris depict pottery, prehistoric animals, and more—so this full-color guidebook is as visually appealing as it is useful on your adventures.
Book Features:
- Entertaining guide to Colorado’s majestic mountains, ancient ruins, secret canyons, hidden waterfalls, and exotic places
- Driving and hiking options—many sites within minutes of your car
- Jon’s rating system: every location rated for significance in archaeology, geology, and/or paleontology
- Amazing illustrations depicting pottery, prehistoric animals, and more
- Jon’s Notes: inside tips that help you make the most out of every visit
Get The Colorado Journey Guide, and start planning your next road trip. It’s everything you need for the perfect Colorado excursion—right at your fingertips!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781591938729 |
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Publisher: | Adventure Publications, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 07/01/2018 |
Series: | Adventure Journey Guides |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Read an Excerpt
Boulder Falls
Directions: Boulder Canyon is along CO 119 west of Boulder. The falls are about 10 miles out of town, while the best part of the walkway is about half that far, marked by signage on the left.
Contact Info:City of Boulder, 303-441-3440, www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view &id=2875&Itemid=1016#Boulder%20Falls
Fee: no fee
Hours: daylight hours
Best time to visit: anytime the road and trail is not too icy
Camping/Lodging: camping nearby; closest lodging in Boulder
Access: easy—but be careful near the falls—the rocks can be very slippery
Jon’s Rating: 5 stars (geology)
Jon’s Notes: There are falls all over this state and a lot that are many times higher than this. So why do we list this one? Stop off to see it and you might actually learn a lesson or two about geologic processes. Never has such a fall been so appropriately named. In this case it’s not just the fact it occurs on the North branch of Boulder Creek, but that there is actually a gigantic—and I do mean GIGANTIC!—boulder that is the star of the show. The huge litholeviathan dislodged from the wall of the canyon above and somehow managed to become wedged in the V-shaped narrows downstream, effectively blocking the flow. Afterward, a small lake built up behind the pinch and eventually the water coursed over the top, a process which continues today.
Table of Contents
Site List- Anasazi Heritage Center
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nat’l Park
- Boulder Falls
- Cave of the Winds
- Chimney Rock Archaeological Area
- Colorado National Monument
- Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
- Deer Creek Petroglyphs
- Devils Stairsteps
- Dinosaur Hill
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Study Area
- Douglas Pass Fossil Site
- Eldorado Canyon State Park
- Florissant Fossil Beds Nat’l Monument
- Fruita Paleo Area
- Garden of the Gods
- Garden Park Dinosaur Area
- Gates of Lodore
- Glenwood Caverns and Glenwood Hot Springs
- Great Sand Dunes National Park
- Hovenweep National Monument
- Irish Canyon
- Lowry Pueblo
- McKee Springs Petroglyphs
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Mt. Princeton Hot Springs
- Pagosa Springs
- Painted Hands Pueblo
- Penitente Canyon & Natural Arch
- Picture Canyon Picnic Area
- Pikes Peak
- Purgatoire River Dinosaur Tracks
- Rangely Rock Art Loop
- Red Rocks Park & Dinosaur Ridge
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Royal Gorge
- Seven Falls
- Steamboat Springs
- Telluride & Bridal Veil Falls
- Trail Through Time
- Treasure Falls
- Ute Mountain Tribal Park
- Vermillion Falls
- Vogel Canyon
- Wheeler Geologic Area