The Colorado National Monument brought in roughly 490,000 visitors in 2024. Within that time, all 23 miles of Rimrock Drive were paved, the amphitheater was finally finished, and several programs ...

Colorado National Monument was created in 1911 to protect one of the American Southwest’s most iconic landscapes. Located just west of Grand Junction, the 32-square-mile monument features slender ...

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

Tribes split over new Colorado national monument. By Jennifer Yachnin | 10/14/2022 01:17 PM EDT . One Utah-based Native American tribe accused the Biden administration of failing to sufficiently ...

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.

The Colorado National Monument is centered around a scenic drive that was built in the early 1900s from Fruita to Grand Junction at the edge of a great canyon on the Colorado Plateau.

Colorado National Monument preserves some of the most incredible geological features in the country. It has the same personality as many of the national parks on the Colorado Plateau, without all ...

Colorado National Monument remains a relative secret, even in Colorado. Go now, before the hordes of tourists arrive.

Since the 1970s, commercial whitewater rafting has been one of the most idealistic and adventurous ways to experience ...

But the openings might also speak to how Colorado National Monument tends to be overlooked, passed by drivers continuing on Interstate 70 to Moab’s red rocks. These hanging canyons and ...

Colorado’s Pando Valley, set to be designated President Biden’s first national monument, was the site of Camp Hale and the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.