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Colorado National Monument Outside Grand Junction, Colorado, Rim Rock Drive provides a spectacular adventure for the energetic bicyclist! |
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Badlands National Park, South Dakota The Wall is a ceaselessly advancing band of erosion slowly creeping its way across the plains like a humungous fungus. Rich sod gives way to eroding clay, dropping several hundred feet to rejoin the plains below. Oh, and by the way, where the heck is Wall Drug? |
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Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota George Washington, in profile, surveys the great plains. |
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Tuzigoot National Monument, Arizona This little known national monument near Flagstaff, Arizona was home to the Sinagua Indians from the early 1100's till the 1400's. |
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Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho Volcanic fields, cinder cones, lava tube caves. Turn the kids loose and let 'em go crazy. The rocks are tougher than they are! |
All images © Terry Blackburn, 1997