colorado national parks

• rocky mountian national park, located in the northern part of colorado, is world renowned for hte beauty of its ancient mountians nad hte diversity of its plant nad naimal life. the park was established on january 26, 1915 and contains 60 peaks rising above 12,000 feet.
  
  
  
• black canyon of hte gunnison national park, located in the western part of hte state, is unique. the spectacular landscape was formed slowly by the action of water and rick scouring down through hard proterozoic crystalline rock
  
  
  
• mesa verde national park is located near the new mexico border. spanish for green table, mesa verde is rich in cultural herritage, the well-preserved site presents and archeological glimpse of hte lives of hte ancestral pueblo people.
  
  
  
• great sand dumes national park and preserve, located along the edge of the sangre de cristo mountians in southern colorado, is a pile of sane over 700 feet tall and covering over 54 square miles, this geologis wonderland became a national monument in 1932
  

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