Colorado Plateau, Mesa

Some of the most spectacular canyons carved out over centuries by nature, are to be found where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, (called four corners which is marked by a monument) and sections of Nevada.

 

Recently, we were able to visit the Colorado National Monument in Mesa, which is a section of the Colorado Plateau and even drove around Rim Road. This route (around 25 miles long) takes you from Fruita and ends up in Grand Junction and provides you with the most panoramic, unforgettable but sometimes dizzying view of the rock formations, tunnels and city below.

This area had been populated by the Ute people, (or as they call themselves, Nuche). They are Colorado’s longest continuous residents.

Castle Gate rock formation

Can you believe climbers ascend that!

However, as part of America’s brutal and oppressive history, they were forcibly moved and confined to reservations elsewhere.

Other spectacular rock formations