Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Check current rim-road and visitor access before selecting a viewpoint or trail.
Visitor details ↗Western Slope / Find your place
Montrose
Black Canyon gateway · Ute history · Western collections
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A place worth knowing
Make room for Montrose.
Combine a local museum with time in town, or give Black Canyon its own outing. A rim viewpoint and a steep inner-canyon route are very different plans.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Ute Indian Museum
Visit the museum’s exhibitions and learn about living Ute cultures and local history.
Visitor details ↗Museum of the Mountain West
Check the current tour arrangements for the museum’s historic buildings and collections.
Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
Choose a local food stop around Montrose using the visitor dining directory. Confirm menus, opening days and reservations with the business.
Explore local dining ↗Stay awhile.
Choose a base for your days around Montrose. Compare dates, location and the operator’s booking terms.
Explore Montrose places to stay ↗A little farther along.
Your next good stop.
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Browse published places around Montrose. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Colorado photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- 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.
- 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.