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Canyon Attractions In Collbran

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The Town of Collbran is a Statutory Town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 708 at the 2010 United States Census. Collbran is a part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is located east of Grand Junction along Plateau Creek, at the upper end of the small cattle ranching valley around the creek known as the Plateau Valley. The largest community in the valley, it serves a civic and economic center for the surrounding area, which is dependent not only ranching, but on pass-through tourism during the summer and autumn months. In the latter capacity, the town acts somewhat as a gateway to nearby Veg...
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  • 1. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park
    The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado River at the state line between Nevada and Arizona. The western wall of the gorge is in the El Dorado Mountains, and the eastern wall is in the Black Mountains of Arizona. The canyon formed about 15 million years ago during the Miocene Basin and Range uplift. Black Canyon gets its name from the black volcanic rocks that are found throughout the area.Just south of the Hoover Dam on the Nevada side of the canyon is the Sauna Cave. This cave was drilled by miners working on Hoover Dam while it was being constructed. It is a deep cave with calcium carbonate crystals on the walls. At the end of the cave is a hot spring, which causes temperatures in the cave to r...
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