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  2. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. [5] The park was originally designated Great Sand ...

  3. Mesa Verde National Park - Wikipedia

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    Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ancestral sites in the United States. Established by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park ...

  4. Pike National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Pike National Forest is located in the Front Range of Colorado, United States, west of Colorado Springs including Pikes Peak. The forest encompasses 1,106,604 acres (4,478 km 2) within Clear Creek, Teller, Park, Jefferson, Douglas and El Paso counties. The major rivers draining the forest are the South Platte and Fountain Creek.

  5. Garden of the Gods - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .gardenofgods .com. U.S. National Natural Landmark. Designated. 1971. Garden of the Gods ( Arapaho: Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i) is a 1,341.3 acre public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. [1] 862 acres (3.49 km 2) of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.

  6. List of protected areas of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The four National Parks within Colorado are: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park near Montrose. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve near Mosca. Mesa Verde National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site near Cortez. Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park and Grand Lake.

  7. Cheyenne Mountain State Park - Wikipedia

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    Area. 1,680 acres (6.8 km 2) Established. 2006. Visitors. 262,456 (in 2021) [1] Governing body. Colorado State Parks. Cheyenne Mountain State Park is a Colorado state park that was acquired in June 2000 through a partnership between the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado State Parks, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), Colorado Lottery, El Paso ...

  8. White River National Forest - Wikipedia

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    White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado. It is named after the White River that passes through its northern section. It is the most visited National Forest in the United States, primarily from users of the twelve ski areas within its boundaries. The forest contains 2,285,970 acres (3,571.8 sq mi, or 9,250.99 km 2 ).

  9. Cheyenne Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Cheyenne Mountain is a triple-peaked mountain in El Paso County, Colorado, southwest of downtown Colorado Springs. The mountain serves as a host for military, communications, recreational, and residential functions. The underground operations center for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was built during the Cold War to ...

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