Colorado National Monument
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Grand Junction
Red-rock vistas · Downtown art · Western Slope
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A place worth knowing
Make room for Grand Junction.
Choose a downtown art-and-food day or a separately planned red-rock outing. Colorado National Monument and the higher Grand Mesa have very different conditions.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Downtown Grand Junction
Browse public art and storefronts, then choose a local meal.
Visitor details ↗Grand Junction area discoveries
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Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
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Your next good stop.
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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.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Colorado FIPS08. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.