The Canyon is a Book ... This layer of rock, known as the Redwall Limestone, forms a sheer cliff 500 ft high or more in most areas. The limestone gets its color from the red siltstones above ...

Behind you, the Colorado River is trenching a deep meander from the Glen Canyon Dam toward the Grand Canyon. Directly in front of you rises a chaos of rock vaulting nearly 3,000 feet—the ...

Directions: Follow Indian Trail Road northward to Rutter Parkway and go north into the Little Spokane River canyon. The parking ... A segment of vertical rock located along the Little Spokane ...

The Gunnison River, Colorado's second largest ... is what makes the canyon so unique. The canyon is named not for the color of the rock in the sheer walls and steep cliffs but for the long ...