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Colorado National Monument is a breathtaking destination that deserves a spot on every adventurer's bucket list. In this engaging episode, we explore its stunning landscapes and the fascinating history surrounding its creation. We also discover the impact of John Otto, the monument's trailblazer, and hear captivating stories about his dedication to preserving this extraordinary place for future generations.
We learn about unique formations such as Independence Monument and the Kissing Couple as we hike along iconic trails like the Canyon Rim Trail and Otto’s Trail. We delve into the geological wonders that make this area unique, unraveling the stunning scenery shaped by millions of years of natural forces. Join us as we share our personal experiences and insights while encouraging you to explore this magnificent monument yourself.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey there, this is Craig the Natural Medic.
I'm at Colorado NationalMonument today, outside of Grand
Junction in Fruita, colorado.
Interesting little nationalmonument that's not very large
it's like 20,000 acres butprotects some interesting places
outside the towns of GrandJunction and Fruita.
(00:22):
I stopped at the historic trailand, according to the sign,
they used to drive cattle upthis side.
Can you imagine that?
I hope you'll stick around andcheck this out.
Okay, I'm pretty much on top ofthe Colorado National Monument.
(00:43):
I'm at a place called DistantView, so you can see a lot of
landmarks in the area Just belowus.
You can see the Colorado River.
You can see the Grand Valley,which includes Grand Junction
and Fruita.
In the distance you have what'scalled the Book Cliffs, which
is this row of cliffs on theeastern side of the valley.
Then over here you have what'scalled the Grand Mesa, which is
(01:08):
a big uplifted mesa.
It's about 5,000 feet higherthan the valley floor and it's a
very durable surface that wasable to keep it elevated and not
eroding like the otherformations around here.
I'm at the visitor center atColorado National Monument and
(01:28):
this is a man known as John Otto.
He was a trail builder,promoter and first custodian of
the park.
He advocated for making thisarea into a national park Per
recommendation of one of thevolunteers inside.
She said to hike the canyon rimtrail and the autos trail, both
(01:53):
of which are pretty short andcan be done just a little bit.
Here is the canyon rim.
As you may have thought, itgoes along the canyon rim here.
I don't think it's paved theentire way, but this first part
(02:14):
goes down these steps.
You have a choice to go to thebook cliff overlook, which is
the canyon rim trail end, or allthe way to window rock, which
is about a mile.
One way decide.
I want to do that, we'll see.
(02:34):
Wow, very pretty.
The rim rock road goes rightalong the flat part.
Right here you can see where itgoes along the top of the
canyon.
Otto's Trail is over there.
The access point for that goesout to the end of this point.
We'll be looking at that in aminute, but for now let's check
(02:57):
out the Canyon Rim Trail andpossibly the Window Trail.
One of the interesting thingsabout Colorado National Monument
is being right here by GrandJunction and Fruita.
When John Otto arrived here in1907 he realized this was a
really special place and he didwhat he could to entice the
(03:23):
local people to get thelegislation passed to make this
into a national park.
It's still not a national park.
It's actually a nationalmonument, but it's under
designation and jurisdiction ofthe National Park Service and
(03:47):
jurisdiction of the NationalPark Service.
The first problem they had wasmaking access for people to get
up here, because once it wasmade a national monument
successfully in 1911, there wasno easy way to get up here
except by foot or on horseback.
Wow, look at that view, isn'tthat crazy?
See Grand Mesa in the distance.
(04:08):
Distance there.
Zoom in a little bit way outthere.
Wow, some lovely views out hereon the canyon rim.
Nice, calm weather today andnot too cold.
It's in the 40s.
You can see right over there,to the right of that spire.
There is an overlook.
I believe that's the end ofOtto's Trail, which is next on
(04:30):
my list to do after this one.
Here we are right below the ParkRoad, rimrock Road, some very
old stones.
They used to make a retainingwall.
The drive is right on this side.
Look, there's a shelter righthere.
This might be the Book Cliffsshelter, where you can see the
(04:52):
window rock further down.
Let's go check it out.
I might have incorrectly calledthis the Book Rock, but it's
Book Cliffs shelter, built in1964 by then and placed in the
National Registry of HistoricPlaces.
How cool.
So a couple of interestingspots here.
At the Book Cliff Shelter youhave the sacred landscape used
(05:15):
by the Utes here.
This was a hunting ground area.
They found evidence.
If you see right here, on thebottom left, there's a scraper.
It's about 5,600 years old.
It was found in the farthestreaches of the park, known as no
(05:37):
Thru-A-Fair Canyon.
But when John Otto saw this hethought of this as the heart of
the world.
You have several named featureshere To the right, leaning over
towards the end of the autotrail.
It's called the Pipe Organ.
Then you have Praying Handsdown here below.
(05:58):
Independence Monument is righthere.
Behind it you have the KissingCouple.
Not sure when this book cliffsshelter was built, but it's got
an interesting look to it withthe graveled roof and the
interesting angles.
The structure itself is justneat looking.
As you see, I'm going throughhere on December 17th 2024 and
(06:23):
there's a little bit of ice here.
Don't have my yak tracks, butI'm going to slog through here.
Definitely a different view.
Here You've got the organs, theIndependence Rock, the kissing
people All that from a differentperspective.
And then you've got these wallsover here.
(06:44):
And then look down here You'vegot a window rock.
How cool is that?
This ends the Canyon Rim Trail.
Took a little bit under an hourto go all the way to the
windows and come back About 1.62miles.
So for this last trail of theday here at Colorado National
(07:04):
Monument, I'm going to do Otto'sTrail, which is very short but
very scenic, and this is onethat John created himself.
Let's go check it out.
One thing you'll notice is thevisitor center is over there.
There's an overlook right therethat I was standing on
previously Window rock.
(07:25):
It's around the corner overthere.
You can see the book cliffshelter right there.
Okay, I've reached the end ofOtto's trail.
If you can only do one trail atthis park, this is the one.
So let's look at the view here.
We'll flip this around.
(07:45):
This is Independence Rock inall of its glory.
It says on the sign that Johnstarted a tradition in 1911 that
every 4th of July someone goesup and puts a flag on top of it.
I'm here in December so I won'tsee that, but maybe someday I
can come back on July 4th andcheck it out.
(08:07):
We've got the backside of thepipe organ right here in front
of us.
Over here, against this cliff,is Sentinel Spires and then in
the distance you can see theWindow Rock, which I was close
to before.
Pretty neat.
And of course, down below youhave the town of Fruita and
Grand Junction.
You might be able to seeInterstate 70 down there as well
(08:29):
.
Pretty cool.
So a couple more interestingthings about John.
He was married at the base ofIndependence Monument in 1911.
He wanted to live close to hislivestock and his wife didn't
last but by a few weeks.
He did become the firstcustodian of the park.
(08:50):
That was before they calledmanagers or park superintendents
, and his salary was one dollara month.
His route, if you want to lookat it on the map or on the
picture, goes up there, followednatural cracks and chimneys.
He did insert pipes, still usedas Otto's route today, but the
pipes have been removed forsafety.
(09:10):
One thing I did notice isthere's more ice and snow on
this because there's more shadedspots than there is on the
canyon rim trail.
Use caution.
Depending on when you come uphere, if it's wintertime,
definitely some different viewsthan you would have gotten on
(09:30):
the other side, so that wasOtto's Trail.
It was about three quarters ofa mile round trip Took me about
26 minutes, including time todilly-dally at the point and
film a little bit.
Use caution.
Use caution during inclementweather such as snow and ice.
Make sure to pack some tractiondevices.
Overall, not too bad of a hike,not really challenging.
(09:52):
You're already up here on topof the monument, so not a big
deal.
Okay, we're going to continuedriving down the Rimrock Road on
top of Colorado NationalMonument.
Here we go In climbingindependence.
Ray Kennedy was Otto's climbingpartner.
He had a photographer namedWhipple Chester.
(10:14):
He was the first person tosummit Independence Monument.
He had been five years in thearea was able to get support.
President William H Taftestablishing Colorado National
Monument.
You can see here people followthis same route and go to the
top every year.
Independence Monument over timehas been shaped in certain ways.
(10:35):
You have Wedding Canyon here infront of us, which is where
they got married.
The future IndependenceMonument will be straight ahead.
As with most things in thedesert southwest Erosion and
weathering had an important partof the story here.
If you look on this bottom,rendering Monument Canyon was to
(10:57):
the right Streams went throughcarving of, freezing and melting
.
Independence Monument what itis today.
Independence Monument what itis today.
We're getting a backside viewof the Independence Monument.
This is from the Grand Viewarea.
You can see this formation madeup of three different layers.
(11:21):
The very topmost layer is theCayenta, the Wingate is the
majority of it and the bottom isthe chinley and here here in
the foreground, this particularwhich I believe is the kissing
couple.
The top of it is kayenta andthe wing gate.
Then if you shift your viewover here you have kayenta on
(11:45):
top, wingate, chinle.
The environments that thisstuff was deposited in varied
quite a bit because they took along time.
The Kayenta formation, which ison top of that cliff over there
, is more resistant to erosion.
It's more of a cap rock typedeal Deposited by a high-energy
braided river system similar toRio Grande in New Mexico.
(12:07):
The next layer was deposited ina desert environment like North
Africa and which is down therein the.
The bottom most portion wasdeposited in more of a jungle
type environment, similar tocoastal environments of South
Africa or South America.
Pretty interesting, definitelyglad I stopped with this grand
(12:29):
view to get a good view as thesun's going down.
So I'm at the Coke OvensOverlook.
Interesting thing about it isthey're actually not Coke Ovens.
It's interesting in our mind'seye what we can see from shapes
in the landscape and the peoplethat first saw this looked like
Coke Ovens.
And the landscape and thepeople that first saw this
(12:49):
looked like coke ovens.
And coke ovens, in case you'rewondering, look like this on the
sign.
They are man-made structuresthat were used to transform coal
into coke, which is a fuel thatproduces little or no gas when
burned.
Certainly an interestingapproach to this a palette of
color showing the primary rockcolors, the lichens, the desert
(13:16):
varnish, calcite coat, calcitecoating, etc.
And you can see that if youlook out into the rocks.
I'm sure this has been aninspiration to artists.
So this stop is talking aboutwoodland relationships.
There is a food web of sortsthat takes place.
(13:37):
The forests here, especiallythe juniper, are thought to be
very old, like a thousand yearsold.
Some of the trees and some ofthe pinyon pines are thought to
be about 600 years old.
Pretty cool to think about.
This is a thing called fallenrock.
It's a named formation and youcan see where it's, almost like
(13:59):
an iceberg.
It's calved off the side of the, the rock there, and just laid
there.
Instead of falling face first,it just slid off and, contrary
to what you might think, itprobably slid off over many
(14:19):
centuries instead of justseconds.
So it didn't just suddenly falloff and there it was, nearing a
close to our adventure today.
The Redlands Fault lifted thisup about 70 to 40 million years
ago.
Over here you can see the GrandMesa through the trees, the
(14:40):
dominant species of trees hereUtah, juniper and the pinyon.
What you're looking at was theoriginal auto road that took
people up on top of the monument.
It was so twisty.
They called it the crookedestroad in the world, the Serpent's
(15:01):
Trail.
Most vehicles in that day didnot have a fuel pump.
They were all gravity driven.
They had to drive up this trailbackwards in order for things
to work.
Pretty crazy to think about thetrail.
Now you can actually hike theold auto route.
(15:21):
The new route is right herewhere these people are walking,
which is Rimrock Road, 23 mileroad that goes along the spine
of the plateau here and is mucheasier to travel for automobiles
.
However, it did take them 20some odd years to build it.
(15:46):
It did take them 20 some oddyears to build it.
They started building it in the30s and got it finally
completed in 1950.
This is the end of ouradventure for today.
What did you think aboutcolorado national monument?
Did you like it?
If you did give it a thumbs up,think about subscribing to the
channel if you want more contentlike this.
Have you ever been here before?
Have you ever even heard of it?
(16:07):
Leave me your comments below.
Let me know if you've visitedthe park before, if you've been
to this area before, and anyquestions you might have.
Hope you enjoyed our littlepass-through today.
Some of them are in variousstates of accessibility due to
snow and ice right now.
I'm sure it's only going to getworse.
Hey there, this is Craig the Natural Medic.
I'm at Colorado NationalMonument today, outside of Grand
Junction in Fruita, colorado.
Interesting little nationalmonument that's not very large
it's like 20,000 acres butprotects some interesting places
outside the towns of GrandJunction and Fruita.
(00:22):
I stopped at the historic trailand, according to the sign,
they used to drive cattle upthis side.
Can you imagine that?
I hope you'll stick around andcheck this out.
Okay, I'm pretty much on top ofthe Colorado National Monument.
(00:43):
I'm at a place called DistantView, so you can see a lot of
landmarks in the area Just belowus.
You can see the Colorado River.
You can see the Grand Valley,which includes Grand Junction
and Fruita.
In the distance you have what'scalled the Book Cliffs, which
is this row of cliffs on theeastern side of the valley.
Then over here you have what'scalled the Grand Mesa, which is
(01:08):
a big uplifted mesa.
It's about 5,000 feet higherthan the valley floor and it's a
very durable surface that wasable to keep it elevated and not
eroding like the otherformations around here.
I'm at the visitor center atColorado National Monument and
(01:28):
this is a man known as John Otto.
He was a trail builder,promoter and first custodian of
the park.
He advocated for making thisarea into a national park Per
recommendation of one of thevolunteers inside.
She said to hike the canyon rimtrail and the autos trail, both
(01:53):
of which are pretty short andcan be done just a little bit.
Here is the canyon rim.
As you may have thought, itgoes along the canyon rim here.
I don't think it's paved theentire way, but this first part
(02:14):
goes down these steps.
You have a choice to go to thebook cliff overlook, which is
the canyon rim trail end, or allthe way to window rock, which
is about a mile.
One way decide.
I want to do that, we'll see.
(02:34):
Wow, very pretty.
The rim rock road goes rightalong the flat part.
Right here you can see where itgoes along the top of the
canyon.
Otto's Trail is over there.
The access point for that goesout to the end of this point.
We'll be looking at that in aminute, but for now let's check
(02:57):
out the Canyon Rim Trail andpossibly the Window Trail.
One of the interesting thingsabout Colorado National Monument
is being right here by GrandJunction and Fruita.
When John Otto arrived here in1907 he realized this was a
really special place and he didwhat he could to entice the
(03:23):
local people to get thelegislation passed to make this
into a national park.
It's still not a national park.
It's actually a nationalmonument, but it's under
designation and jurisdiction ofthe National Park Service and
(03:47):
jurisdiction of the NationalPark Service.
The first problem they had wasmaking access for people to get
up here, because once it wasmade a national monument
successfully in 1911, there wasno easy way to get up here
except by foot or on horseback.
Wow, look at that view, isn'tthat crazy?
See Grand Mesa in the distance.
(04:08):
Distance there.
Zoom in a little bit way outthere.
Wow, some lovely views out hereon the canyon rim.
Nice, calm weather today andnot too cold.
It's in the 40s.
You can see right over there,to the right of that spire.
There is an overlook.
I believe that's the end ofOtto's Trail, which is next on
(04:30):
my list to do after this one.
Here we are right below the ParkRoad, rimrock Road, some very
old stones.
They used to make a retainingwall.
The drive is right on this side.
Look, there's a shelter righthere.
This might be the Book Cliffsshelter, where you can see the
(04:52):
window rock further down.
Let's go check it out.
I might have incorrectly calledthis the Book Rock, but it's
Book Cliffs shelter, built in1964 by then and placed in the
National Registry of HistoricPlaces.
How cool.
So a couple of interestingspots here.
At the Book Cliff Shelter youhave the sacred landscape used
(05:15):
by the Utes here.
This was a hunting ground area.
They found evidence.
If you see right here, on thebottom left, there's a scraper.
It's about 5,600 years old.
It was found in the farthestreaches of the park, known as no
(05:37):
Thru-A-Fair Canyon.
But when John Otto saw this hethought of this as the heart of
the world.
You have several named featureshere To the right, leaning over
towards the end of the autotrail.
It's called the Pipe Organ.
Then you have Praying Handsdown here below.
(05:58):
Independence Monument is righthere.
Behind it you have the KissingCouple.
Not sure when this book cliffsshelter was built, but it's got
an interesting look to it withthe graveled roof and the
interesting angles.
The structure itself is justneat looking.
As you see, I'm going throughhere on December 17th 2024 and
(06:23):
there's a little bit of ice here.
Don't have my yak tracks, butI'm going to slog through here.
Definitely a different view.
Here You've got the organs, theIndependence Rock, the kissing
people All that from a differentperspective.
And then you've got these wallsover here.
(06:44):
And then look down here You'vegot a window rock.
How cool is that?
This ends the Canyon Rim Trail.
Took a little bit under an hourto go all the way to the
windows and come back About 1.62miles.
So for this last trail of theday here at Colorado National
(07:04):
Monument, I'm going to do Otto'sTrail, which is very short but
very scenic, and this is onethat John created himself.
Let's go check it out.
One thing you'll notice is thevisitor center is over there.
There's an overlook right therethat I was standing on
previously Window rock.
(07:25):
It's around the corner overthere.
You can see the book cliffshelter right there.
Okay, I've reached the end ofOtto's trail.
If you can only do one trail atthis park, this is the one.
So let's look at the view here.
We'll flip this around.
(07:45):
This is Independence Rock inall of its glory.
It says on the sign that Johnstarted a tradition in 1911 that
every 4th of July someone goesup and puts a flag on top of it.
I'm here in December so I won'tsee that, but maybe someday I
can come back on July 4th andcheck it out.
(08:07):
We've got the backside of thepipe organ right here in front
of us.
Over here, against this cliff,is Sentinel Spires and then in
the distance you can see theWindow Rock, which I was close
to before.
Pretty neat.
And of course, down below youhave the town of Fruita and
Grand Junction.
You might be able to seeInterstate 70 down there as well
(08:29):
.
Pretty cool.
So a couple more interestingthings about John.
He was married at the base ofIndependence Monument in 1911.
He wanted to live close to hislivestock and his wife didn't
last but by a few weeks.
He did become the firstcustodian of the park.
(08:50):
That was before they calledmanagers or park superintendents
, and his salary was one dollara month.
His route, if you want to lookat it on the map or on the
picture, goes up there, followednatural cracks and chimneys.
He did insert pipes, still usedas Otto's route today, but the
pipes have been removed forsafety.
(09:10):
One thing I did notice isthere's more ice and snow on
this because there's more shadedspots than there is on the
canyon rim trail.
Use caution.
Depending on when you come uphere, if it's wintertime,
definitely some different viewsthan you would have gotten on
(09:30):
the other side, so that wasOtto's Trail.
It was about three quarters ofa mile round trip Took me about
26 minutes, including time todilly-dally at the point and
film a little bit.
Use caution.
Use caution during inclementweather such as snow and ice.
Make sure to pack some tractiondevices.
Overall, not too bad of a hike,not really challenging.
(09:52):
You're already up here on topof the monument, so not a big
deal.
Okay, we're going to continuedriving down the Rimrock Road on
top of Colorado NationalMonument.
Here we go In climbingindependence.
Ray Kennedy was Otto's climbingpartner.
He had a photographer namedWhipple Chester.
(10:14):
He was the first person tosummit Independence Monument.
He had been five years in thearea was able to get support.
President William H Taftestablishing Colorado National
Monument.
You can see here people followthis same route and go to the
top every year.
Independence Monument over timehas been shaped in certain ways.
(10:35):
You have Wedding Canyon here infront of us, which is where
they got married.
The future IndependenceMonument will be straight ahead.
As with most things in thedesert southwest Erosion and
weathering had an important partof the story here.
If you look on this bottom,rendering Monument Canyon was to
(10:57):
the right Streams went throughcarving of, freezing and melting
.
Independence Monument what itis today.
Independence Monument what itis today.
We're getting a backside viewof the Independence Monument.
This is from the Grand Viewarea.
You can see this formation madeup of three different layers.
(11:21):
The very topmost layer is theCayenta, the Wingate is the
majority of it and the bottom isthe chinley and here here in
the foreground, this particularwhich I believe is the kissing
couple.
The top of it is kayenta andthe wing gate.
Then if you shift your viewover here you have kayenta on
(11:45):
top, wingate, chinle.
The environments that thisstuff was deposited in varied
quite a bit because they took along time.
The Kayenta formation, which ison top of that cliff over there
, is more resistant to erosion.
It's more of a cap rock typedeal Deposited by a high-energy
braided river system similar toRio Grande in New Mexico.
(12:07):
The next layer was deposited ina desert environment like North
Africa and which is down therein the.
The bottom most portion wasdeposited in more of a jungle
type environment, similar tocoastal environments of South
Africa or South America.
Pretty interesting, definitelyglad I stopped with this grand
(12:29):
view to get a good view as thesun's going down.
So I'm at the Coke OvensOverlook.
Interesting thing about it isthey're actually not Coke Ovens.
It's interesting in our mind'seye what we can see from shapes
in the landscape and the peoplethat first saw this looked like
Coke Ovens.
And the landscape and thepeople that first saw this
(12:49):
looked like coke ovens.
And coke ovens, in case you'rewondering, look like this on the
sign.
They are man-made structuresthat were used to transform coal
into coke, which is a fuel thatproduces little or no gas when
burned.
Certainly an interestingapproach to this a palette of
color showing the primary rockcolors, the lichens, the desert
(13:16):
varnish, calcite coat, calcitecoating, etc.
And you can see that if youlook out into the rocks.
I'm sure this has been aninspiration to artists.
So this stop is talking aboutwoodland relationships.
There is a food web of sortsthat takes place.
(13:37):
The forests here, especiallythe juniper, are thought to be
very old, like a thousand yearsold.
Some of the trees and some ofthe pinyon pines are thought to
be about 600 years old.
Pretty cool to think about.
This is a thing called fallenrock.
It's a named formation and youcan see where it's, almost like
(13:59):
an iceberg.
It's calved off the side of the, the rock there, and just laid
there.
Instead of falling face first,it just slid off and, contrary
to what you might think, itprobably slid off over many
(14:19):
centuries instead of justseconds.
So it didn't just suddenly falloff and there it was, nearing a
close to our adventure today.
The Redlands Fault lifted thisup about 70 to 40 million years
ago.
Over here you can see the GrandMesa through the trees, the
(14:40):
dominant species of trees hereUtah, juniper and the pinyon.
What you're looking at was theoriginal auto road that took
people up on top of the monument.
It was so twisty.
They called it the crookedestroad in the world, the Serpent's
(15:01):
Trail.
Most vehicles in that day didnot have a fuel pump.
They were all gravity driven.
They had to drive up this trailbackwards in order for things
to work.
Pretty crazy to think about thetrail.
Now you can actually hike theold auto route.
(15:21):
The new route is right herewhere these people are walking,
which is Rimrock Road, 23 mileroad that goes along the spine
of the plateau here and is mucheasier to travel for automobiles
.
However, it did take them 20some odd years to build it.
(15:46):
It did take them 20 some oddyears to build it.
They started building it in the30s and got it finally
completed in 1950.
This is the end of ouradventure for today.
What did you think aboutcolorado national monument?
Did you like it?
If you did give it a thumbs up,think about subscribing to the
channel if you want more contentlike this.
Have you ever been here before?
Have you ever even heard of it?
(16:07):
Leave me your comments below.
Let me know if you've visitedthe park before, if you've been
to this area before, and anyquestions you might have.
Hope you enjoyed our littlepass-through today.
Some of them are in variousstates of accessibility due to
snow and ice right now.
I'm sure it's only going to getworse.
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Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.