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Sunrise on the Gateway Rocks of Garden of the Gods, from a popular overlook. Cheyenne Mountain and southwest Colorado Springs can be seen in the background.
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Looking west toward the pond just below the summit of Cottonwood Pass in the Collegiate Peaks. The road itself snakes from center right to lower left.
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Pikes Peak can be seen from the gap in the Siamese Twins formation in Garden of the Gods park. The formation is two columns of rock, joined in two places.
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The soft stone found in Palmer Park has been carved over the centuries into formations nicknamed hoodoos. Palmer Park was named for Gen. William Jackson Palmer, who gave the land to the city he founded in 1871.
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Garden of the Gods is a rock formation that attracts tourists and rock climber from around the world. The garden encompasses hiking trails, an interpretive center and other leisure possibilities.
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This mining headframe, which stood over a mineshaft, is in an open-air museum between the historic mining towns of Cripple Creek and Victor.
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Bennett Avenue is the main street of the former mining town of Cripple Creek in central Colorado. The legalization of gambling has revitalized the small town.
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This breath-taking view of Pikes Peak and South Gateway Rock awaits visitors to the Garden of the Gods, a city park on the west edge of Colorado Springs.
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Cottonwood Pass cuts through the Collegiate Peaks near Buena Vista. The lighter blue needles are new growth on the blue spruces, Colorado's state tree.
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The morning sun accentuates the orange color of the rock formations at Garden of the Gods park on the west edge of Colorado Springs.
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Pikes Peak as seen from Garden of the Gods; the formation on the left is Siamese Twins, two columns of rock joined in two places.
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The foothills of Pikes Peak can be seen from Garden of the Gods park; the formation on the right is the Siamese Twins, columns of rock joined in two places.
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The sun rises on sedimentary rock formations in Palmer Park, an open space named for Gen. William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs.
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