Colorado Landscapes
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Upper Greasewood Creek
Upper Greasewood Creek is located in Rio Blanco County just east of Rangley, Colorado. The creek is surrounded by a couple of mesas with several interesting plant communities and beautiful views of the surrounding country. It has been designated as a protected natural area by the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife. Photo by Mo Ewing.
Uncompahgre River
The Uncompahgre River in southwestern Colorado. Its headwaters start in the San Juan mountains and it flows 75 miles to Confluence Park in Delta County where it meets the Gunnison River. There are two damns in the river, one small one is in the Uncompahgre Gorge, where this photo was taken. The second one is the Ridgeway Dam, below Ridgeway, Colorado, which forms the Ridgeway Reservoir.
Photo by Mo Ewing.
Yanks Gulch
Yanks Gulch, located in Rio Blanco County, is owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management and has been designated a natural area by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. It contains excellent examples of mesic sagebrush shrublans, and western slope grasslands. Several species of rare plants are located there. Photo by Mo Ewing.
Horsethief Canyon, Colorado River
This is Horsethief Canyon, part of the Ruby and Horsethief section of the Colorado River from Loma, Colorado to Westwood, Utah. It flows in mostly flat water, for 25 miles with only one class II rapid. There are several places to hike along the river. The rock you see is 1.7 billion year old Vishnu schist, which is also found in the Grand Canyon. Photo by Mo Ewing.
The Uncompahgre Plateau
The 1.5 million acre Uncompahgre Plateau is located in western Colorado, arising from the Colorado River at 4,600 feet to a maximum height of 10,300 feet at Horsefly Peak. It's boundaries are the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers on the west and the Gunnison and Uncompagre rivers on the east. The mountains in this photo are the San Miguels. Photo by Mo Ewing
Sand Canyon
Sand Canyon is located on the southern side of Canyon of the Ancients, near Cortez, Colorado. Canyon of the Ancients is known primarily by the Sand Canyon Pueblo, an ancient ruin containing 400 rooms, but the area is also interesting for its beautiful canyons and wonderful diversity of native plants in the semi-desert shrubland life zone. Photo by Mo Ewing
Lookout Mountain, Moffat County
Lookout Mountain is located in the Vermillion Basin in Moffat County. The area in this photo is on the base of the mountain on the western side. Dry and arid, it is home to plants that can survive in areas with little moisture. However, at the top of the mountain at about 8,100 feet you will find a suite of beautiful cushion plants. Photo by Mo Ewing
Rabbit Mountain
This is a photo of the Ron Steward Preserve at Rabbit Mountain (formerly Rabbit Mountain Open Space) in Boulder. This 5,000 acre preserve has three hiking trails from 1.2 to 4 miles long, great birding, horseback riding, biking and also has wildlife, including prairie dogs, lizards, snakes, mule deer, elk and mountain lions. Photo by Bill Bowman.
The Gore Range
The Gore Range runs approximately 60 miles from the south end of the Park Range from Rabbit Ears Pass (U.S. Highway 40) to the Eagle River and Gore Creek near Vail. It forms part of the western boundary of Middle Park which contains the headwaters of the Colorado river.
The range was named after Sir St George Gore, 8th Baronet, an Irish hunter who visited the area in the 1850s on a notorious three year hunting expedition through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado where he claimed to have killed more than 2,000 buffalo, 1,600 elk and deer and 100 bears for sport. Photo by Loraine Yeatts
East Lost Park
East Lost Park lies south of Bailey in Park and Jefferson Counties. It is situated in the Lost Creek Wilderness Area, encompassing 16,798 acres and was designated a wilderness area in 1966. The stream, Lost Creek disappears underground and reappears on the surface at least nine times. Photo by Mo Ewing