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Website. www .gjcity .org. Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the seat of government and largest city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] Grand Junction's population was 65,560 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the most populous city in western Colorado and the 17th most populous Colorado municipality overall.
Route description Western Slope. U.S. Highway 50 begins in Colorado at the Utah state line, concurrent with Interstate 70 as well as U.S. Highway 6.At Interstate 70 exit 11, U.S. Highway 6 & 50 end their concurrency with Interstate 70 and begin using the old highway alignment directly north of Interstate 70 while they travel through the communities of Mack, Loma, and Fruita.
2413110 [5] Website. www .parachutecolorado .com. The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. [6] The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
The name Rio Colorado ("Red River") was first applied to the Colorado by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in his maps and written reports resulting from his explorations to the Colorado River Delta and his discovery that California was not an island but a peninsula (1700–1702). Kino's 1701 map, "Paso por Tierra a la California," is the first ...
Mary's Medical Center is the tallest building in the city of Grand Junction, standing at 146 ft (45 m) tall. [6] In April 2022, SCL Health, the healthcare organization that St. Mary's belonged to, merged with Intermountain Healthcare. The new organization took the name Intermountain Healthcare, but in early 2023, it changed its name to ...
08-15605. GNIS feature ID. 2413226 [2] Website. www .colorado .gov /townofcollbran. Collbran is a statutory town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town's population was 369 at the 2020 Census. [4] Collbran is a part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Course of the Colorado River. Map showing the Colorado River basin. The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source. Located in north central Colorado it flows southwest through the Colorado Plateau country ...
class 1 hiking [2] Mt. Garfield [3] is the high point of the Book Cliffs, east-northeast of Grand Junction, and overlooking the town of Palisade. Two classic hiking trails ascend the mountain. The mountain was named after President James Garfield a year after Garfield's death. The mountain is composed of Mesaverde Group overlaying Mancos Shale .