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Black Canyon · Inner gorge

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Black Canyon & Montrose

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Landscape view of Black Canyon near Inner gorge in the Black Canyon & Montrose region.
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Black Canyon · Inner gorgeA view from the Black Canyon & Montrose area.Photo: The walls of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in western Colorado are so deep they can be overwhelming. The canyons carved by millions of years by the Gunnison River feature some of the steepest cliffs, oldest rock, and craggiest spires on the continent. Some of the crevices along the 12 miles of the canyon are twice as high as the Empire State Building and so narrow that regions of the canyon on see about 33 minutes of direct sunlight per day. (opens the source record in a new tab) · NealVickers · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens the license in a new tab) · Resized and compressed for this app.
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