The woman standing beside it shows scale.
This is a park which belongs to the City of Colorado Springs.
Its main attractions are various formations of large red rocks, especially Balanced Rock.
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Here's Balanced Rock. The woman standing beside it shows scale. |
Balanced Rock. Don't sneeze. |
This cavern isn't very grandiose, but it runs fairly deep.
Its opening is at the top of a deep canyon.
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This is the official photo they take of each person or group at the beginning of the tour. |
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This is a view of the canyon from the top. The bridge is Interstate 24. |
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| A time capsule. Buried in 1881, it will be opened in 2081. |
These are adobe structures built by the Anasazi
under a cliff overhang hundreds of years ago.
The first two photos are of the gift shop,
not an actual historic adobe house.
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The gift shop was built against the cliff. Here, inside the gift shop, you can see that the cliff itself forms its back wall. Some of the merchandise was displayed on natural shelves formed in the rock. |
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