Several presidents have their names attached to some of Colorado’s greatest natural treasures. After all, it takes a president’s pen to create national parks and monuments. With Presidents Day ...

The proclamation noted “extraordinary examples of weathering and erosion” in western Colorado — red rock canyons, pinnacles and arches sculpted by deep time. The national monument sits on ...

The "towering spires of sandstone and cliffs" at Colorado National Monument were formed by "erosion ... biking or driving along the 23-mile Rim Rock Drive. Devil's Kitchen Trail and Serpents ...

Native Americans and Spanish settlers created the petroglyphs – rock carvings made from a chisel and hammerstone – at Albuquerque's Petroglyph National Park 400 to 700 years ago. The monument ...

And two years ago, in Colorado ... The nation’s first national monument, Devil’s Tower, in northwest Wyoming, has as many as 20 different names such as “Bear’s Tipi,” “Tree Rock,” and “Bear Lodge.” ...

In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic ...

One of New Mexico’s most unique geological structures is being internationally recognized. The Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks ...