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	Alpine Triangle:  Imagine peaks alpine peaks reaching up to 13,000 feet in the sky. The Alpine Triangle has long been known for its outstanding scenery and the array of recreational activities. Featuring spectacular wildflowers, streams, snowfields, historic mining structures, trails and scenic byways.
	Arkansas River:  Expansive vistas of Colorado's highest peaks characterize the upper valley, as it narrows into rugged canyons. The valley's beauty provides a dramatic backdrop for a rich historical legacy that includes important religious sites for both mountain and plains American Indian tribes.
	Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients National Monument:  invites you to travel back in time to learn about Ancestral Puebloan culture and the area’s fragile resources. The monument has the highest known density of archaeological sites and the most studied archaeological landscapes in the nation.
	Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area: is home to cascading waterfalls and rugged sandstone canyons. The area has long been known for amazing scenery in the remarkable canyon country of the Uncompahgre Plateau.  Red-rock canyons and bluffs hold geological and paleontological resources spanning 600 million years.
	Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area:  is set against a backdrop of landscapes ranging from adobe badlands, to rugged pinyon-juniper-covered slopes, to the breathtaking river canyon of the Gunnison Gorge Wilderness. The Gunnison Gorge boasts a world-class, gold medal fishery.
	McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area:  encompasses a diverse landscape of salt brush desert and the dramatic red-rock canyons of the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness.
	Upper Colorado:  This area is the second busiest whitewater river in Colorado. The 14 mile Pumphouse to State Bridge section of the Colorado provides moderate whitewater rapids, scenic canyons with intermittent ranching landscapes, abundant wildlife and hot springs.
	Gold Belt:  The Gold Belt is home to rugged montane, semi-desert foothills and adjoining canyons. During the gold rush days, more gold came from this district than from all the California gold fields combined.

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Other Featured Areas:

Mosquito Range: This unique landscape encompasses several 13,000 foot peaks, "fourteeners" and the highest vehicle route in the country, cresting at nearly 13,200 feet.

Sand Wash:  Sand Wash contains a variety of resources, including an array of motorized recreation opportunities. Rolling sagebrush hills and pinyon-juniper woodlands cover the landscape as far as the eye can see.

Skull and Willow Creeks:  One of Colorado's last undeveloped remnants of the western frontier, Skull and Willow Creek contains rugged canyon country and rim-rock ledges that exhibit outstanding scenery and associated cultural, geological, and recreation attractions.