A new National Park, both for us and the country, although it's been around since 1999 as a park. We'd never been and since I have a fascination with holes in the ground, we visited.
The canyon is narrow and deep. These factors limit the amount of sunlight reaching the canyon walls, making it the Black Canyon. Two dimensional pictures just don't give a sense of the extent of the canyon.
The rock in the canyon is OLD. Other than a thin layer at the top, the rocks that form the walls are two billion years old. The colors of granite come from molten rock being squeezed through fissures in pre-Cambrian times.
The Gunnison River did the heavy lifting in creating the canyon.
Off to the SW a whole bunch of nothingness
A sticker on a car at one of the overlooks, for my sister.
An interesting stop
The canyon is narrow and deep. These factors limit the amount of sunlight reaching the canyon walls, making it the Black Canyon. Two dimensional pictures just don't give a sense of the extent of the canyon.
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