This is the Birch Creek area along the National Landscape Conservation System’s Nez Perce National Historic Trail. Congress established the Nez Perce National Historic Trail in 1986. The trail stretches from Wallowa Lake, Oregon and across Idaho to the Bear Paw National Historic Trail in Chinook, Montana.

Photo: James Neeley

Colorado National Monument preserves one of the grand landscapes of the American West. But this treasure is much more than a monument. Towering monoliths exist within a vast plateau and canyon panorama. You can experience sheer-walled, red rock canyons along the twists and turns of Rim Rock Drive, where you may spy bighorn sheep and soaring eagles.

Photo by Bill Cummings