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Article: The red rocks of Roxborough ... new state park 25 miles southwest of Denver. (Roxborough State Park, Colorado)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- September 1, 1987
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Like the spiny backbones of half-buried dinosaurs, brick red fins poke up through the landscape in Colorado's newest state park, less than a 1/2 hour drive from Denver. Officially opened May 15, Roxborough State Park is also protected as a national natural landmark and a state natural area the only place in Colorado given both designations.
When you visit this vividly contoured terrain, you'll see why conservationists fought so hard to save it. Our favorite time is in the warm light of late afternoon.
Rising mountains and tilting slabs form a remarkable landscape.
Nestled in foothills at 6,000 feet, Roxborough's sandstone ridges are part ...