Seeking a less crowded (just as gorgeous) alternative to the Grand Canyon? Consider visiting the 20,500-plus-acre Colorado ...

Grand Junction comes by its name honestly: it is at the intersection of the Colorado (formerly known as the Grand) and ...

Reach the Colorado National Monument by taking Interstate 70 through Grand Junction to Fruita and follow signs to the west entrance and the visitor center. You can also visit the monument's Web site .

In the early 1900s, John Otto came to Grand Junction, Colorado, to explore the rugged canyons to the west of town. ... Colorado National Monument. 2015-09-06T14:40:12-04:00 ...

As the mayor of Grand Junction, I have the privilege of representing the largest community on Colorado’s Western Slope. Our city, the place I grew up in, is surrounded by awe-inspiring beauty ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. ” The breathtaking Colorado National Monument ” a land of canyons and rocky spires stretching from Grand Junction to near Fruita on the far western edge of the state ” is gaining ...

Warm weather officially returned to Western Colorado Sunday, with several places, including Grand Junction, setting temperature records, according to the National Weather Service. According to NWS ...

GRAND JUNCTION — The more than century-long intermittent effort to turn the Colorado National Monument into a national park moved forward Tuesday when U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Rep ...

Colorado National Monument was founded 110 years ago, largely because of one man. ... Grand Junction has changed a lot in the last century-plus. But the Monument has not.

Records show nearly 500,000 people visited Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction last year. Other more remote monuments like Canyons of the Ancients see fewer than 100,000 visitors a year.

As a close neighbor and regular user of Colorado National Monument in western Colorado close to Grand Junction, I suffered a sharp attack of NIMBYism when I heard of a 2011 proposal to turn one of ...