Captions List for Colorado National Parks & Natural Areas Photos

Word index of all photos (without thumbnails) covering Colorado National Parks & Natural Areas.

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  • Mesa upon which Mesa Verde National Park sits.
  • Mesa once home to Pueblo natives now Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Landscape on approach to Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Rock formation of butte in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Striated butte in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Canyons of Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Cliff Canyon along Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Visitors examine one of round Kiva ceremonial chambers at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Details of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Round tower at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Stone walls forming living rooms & Kivas at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Round tower at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Square tower at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Towers & Kivas of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Rock formations which form caves used by early native settlements at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • View of mesa top from Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Architecture of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Four story tower under cave overhang at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Defensive grain storage structure in cleft of rock at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Round tower at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Towers in caves of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Ancient masonry structure of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Kiva detail with fire pit, air deflector wall, ventilator chimney hole plus benches for ceremony attendees at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Towers in cave at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Support poles & petroglyphs inside tower at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Cliff Palace seen lengthwise in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Soda Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • View across Soda Canyon to cave holding Hemenway House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Hemenway House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Hemenway House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Rock formations with small stone houses beside Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Ladder descending into Kiva at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Houses built into caves at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Kiva detail where small hole beside fire pit is symbolic entry to underworld at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Kiva detail at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Water marks on cliff overhang at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Balcony House at Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Climb to Balcony House at Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Balcony House at Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Climb up from Balcony House at Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Prehistoric highrise Square Tower House at Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Petroglyphs in Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Observation deck part of Chapin Mesa Museum of Mesa Verde National Park.
  • Model of early peoples hunting buffalo about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Model of native life during Pueblo period 1200 years ago at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Model of native life during cliff dwelling Classic Pueblo period 800 years ago at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Model of native life during cliff dwelling Classic Pueblo period 800 years ago at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Arrow heads or points typical of Pueblo period at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Unusual Pueblo pottery in animal form at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Pueblo pottery corn storage jar with bowl used a protective lid (c1200-1270) found buried with corn inside at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Ancient corn found in Puebloan pottery jar sits in lid for jar at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Pueblo pottery water jar with narrow spaced lines typical of Classic Mesa Verde Style at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Kiva pottery jar in Mesa Verde Style at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Kiva jar found in Mesa Verde religious Kiva has ridge for lid at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Pottery seed jar with painted animals in Mesa Verde Style at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery cup & bowl at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery cups from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery double mug at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery bowl with painted tick from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery bowl from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery bowl painted with birds from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery bowl with bird painted inside from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mesa Verde Puebloan pottery bowl with painted leaping mountain sheep from classic period III at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Tusayan Puebloan pottery bowls from Arizona at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Mimbres Mongollon native pottery bowl (c500BC-1200) with goat or sheep from southern New Mexico at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Paquime Puebloan native pottery polychrome jar from southern New Mexico at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Cibola Puebloan native pottery polychrome bowl (c500BC-1200) from western New Mexico at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Ute beaded gauntlets with flowers at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Ute beaded vest with flowers at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Ute beaded cuffs with horse at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Native beaded boots with flowers at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Navajo woven blanket or rug (1650-1865) at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Navajo woven chief's blanket (late 1800s) at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Display on how Navajo rugs were woven at Mesa Verde Museum.
  • Painted Wall at Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park.
  • Rock veins give colors to Painted Wall in Gunnison National Park.
  • Painted Wall cliff is 2,300 feet tall or about twice height of Empire State Building at Gunnison National Park.
  • Gunnison River runs along base of Painted Wall at Gunnison National Park.
  • Rock formations at Gunnison National Park.
  • View into Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park.
  • Canyon rim at Gunnison National Park.
  • Black Canyon cliff at Gunnison National Park.
  • Sage & plant life at Gunnison National Park.
  • Rock colors at Gunnison National Park.
  • Constricted river canyon of Gunnison National Park.
  • Mesa over canyon drop at Gunnison National Park.
  • Pinnacles in canyon at Gunnison National Park.
  • Distant Rocky Mountains from Gunnison National Park.
  • Glimpse of river at Gunnison National Park.
  • Pinnacles in canyon at Gunnison National Park.
  • Canyon rock striations at Gunnison National Park.
  • Distant Rocky Mountains from Gunnison National Park.
  • Tress growing out of canyon at Gunnison National Park.
  • Lichens at Gunnison National Park.
  • Lichens on granite of Gunnison National Park.
  • Black cliff rocks at Gunnison National Park.
  • Observation pathway at Gunnison National Park.
  • Rocky mountains over rim of Gunnison National Park.
  • Plant life at Gunnison National Park.
  • Gunnison River far below at Gunnison National Park.
  • Observation platform at Gunnison National Park.
  • Oak tree at Gunnison National Park.
  • Tree trunk at Gunnison National Park.
  • Scenery on Highway 50 East of Gunnison.
  • Pinnacles on Blue Mesa Reservoir on Highway 50 East of Gunnison.
  • Pinnacles on Blue Mesa Reservoir on Highway 50 East of Gunnison.
  • Landscape of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized redwood tree trunk at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized trio of redwood tree trunks at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized giant redwood tree trunk at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Surface detail of fossilized redwood tree trunk at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Pines over meadow at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Pines at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Pines at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Rabbit at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Ponderosa Pine at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Ponderosa Pine bark at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fringed sage at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Peppergrass at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Goldenrod at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Purple flowers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Mixture of yellow wildflowers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Mixed wildflowers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Red wildflowers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Purple wildflowers at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Bee on thistle flower at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Wild grasses at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized redwood tree trunk at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized wasp (Paleovespa florissantia) at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized fish at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized fern at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Fossilized redwood leaves at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Hornbek Homestead (1878) log buildings preserved within Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
  • Wind-shaped pine at Colorado National Monument.
  • Rocky canyon in Colorado National Monument.
  • Rocky ridge at Colorado National Monument.
  • Boulders at Colorado National Monument.
  • Landscape of Colorado National Monument.
  • Ranges of the Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Snow covered Rocky Mountain ridges from air.
  • Rocky Mountain formations from air.
  • Rocky Mountain valley from air.
  • Rocky Mountains near Aspen from air.
  • Repetitive peaks of Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Rocky Mountain valley forests from air.
  • Rocky Mountain slopes from air.
  • Jet engine over Rocky Mountains.
  • Rocky Mountain snowfields from air.
  • Rocky Mountain peaks from air.
  • Rocky Mountain ridges from air.
  • Rocky Mountain formations from air.
  • Rocky Mountains & foothills from air approached from west.
  • Rocky Mountain ridges from air.
  • Snow capped ridges & clouds of Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Mist-covered Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Snow-covered Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Snow-covered Rocky Mountains & valleys from air.
  • Rugged peaks of chain in Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Snowy expanse of Rocky Mountains from air.
  • Prairie croplands near Denver International Airport with circular fields for rotary irrigation from air.
  • Mississippi River from air.
  • Tunnel at high point of Interstate 70 in Colorado.
  • Rockies in Colorado from Interstate 70.
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