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Western Slope
Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs and Montrose offer three different Western Slope days: red-rock country, river canyons and local history.
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Western Slope, a little closer.
Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs and Montrose offer three different Western Slope days: red-rock country, river canyons and local history. Choose a base before adding a longer park excursion.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Colorado photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Scenery at Colorado National Monument, which is by no means a monument in the typical sense of the word. It's more like a national park, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Aerial view of Glenwood Canyon and a portion of the Glenwood Canyon Viaduct, approaching Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The viaduct, one of the United States' engineering marvels, was one of the last pieces of high-speed Interstate Highway 70, between Maryland and Utah, to be completed. It included construction of an upper cantilevered route for westbound lanes, attached to the narrow canyon wall — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- A portion of the deep Black Canyon of the Gunnison (River), near Montrose in Montrose County, Colorado — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Colorado FIPS08. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.