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Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Rifle Gap State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Garfield County near Rifle, Colorado. The 1,341-acre (5.43 km 2) park established in 1966 includes a 360-acre (1.5 km 2) reservoir. Plant communities are pinyon-juniper woodlands, sagebrush shrubland with deciduous riparian forest in places along the edge of ...
Rifle Falls State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Garfield County northeast of Rifle, Colorado. The central feature of the 48-acre (0.19 km 2) park is a triple 70-foot (21 m) waterfall flowing over a travertine dam on East Rifle Creek. Commonly seen wildlife includes mule deer, elk, coyote, and golden-mantled ground squirrel.
Rifle is a home rule municipality in, and the most populous community of, Garfield County, Colorado, United States.The population was 10,437 at the 2020 census. [7] Rifle is a regional center of the cattle ranching industry located along Interstate 70 and the Colorado River just east of the Roan Plateau, which dominates the western skyline of the town.
SH 325 and Rifle Gap Dam, March 2017. SH 325 runs 11.4 miles (18.3 km), starting at a junction with SH 13 north of Rifle. The highway goes north to Rifle Gap State Park. From there it follows East Rifle Creek east and then north to Rifle Falls State Park. After passing the falls it continues north along the creek, ending at the entrance to ...
This is a list of the state parks in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state park system to accommodate both outdoor recreation and tourism. There are currently forty-two parks open to the public, and there are others in development. [ 1] Colorado State Parks host over eleven million visitors each year.
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One of the swimming beaches at the park. / 39.61444°N 107.65611°W / 39.61444; -107.65611. Harvey Gap State Park, is a Colorado state park [2] founded in 1987. [3] It is well known for its fishing and limited use boating. The park's reservoir — Grass Valley Reservoir — is 190 acres (0.77 km 2) when full and allows fishing year round.
Valley Curtain. Valley Curtain was a 1972 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude raised an orange curtain of fabric across a mountainous span of Colorado State Highway 325. [1] Preparations began within a year of their Australian Wrapped Coast. The artists formed a corporation to benefit from tax and other liabilities ...