The Garden Of The Gods
Photo By James H Egbert

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• Title: The Garden Of The Gods
• State/Province/Region: Colorado
• Country: United States
• Nearest Area: Interstate 25
• Nearest Town: Colorado Springs
• Brief Directions: The Garden of the Gods is located near the city of Colorado Springs (less than an hour south of Denver on Interstate 25). Take highway 24 west off of I-25. There are numerous signs and the GPS coordinates are not necessary to locate the area. Please see the link below for complete write up. I can submit a MS Word Doc file. http://www.naturephotographynaturally.com/gog-travelogue.htm
• Notes: There is a valley near the base of Pikes Peak known since the mid-19th century as the Garden of the Gods. It is a garden not of flowers, but of rock - of kissing camels and stone toadstools, balanced rocks and mammoth sandstone walls tilted upward toward the Colorado sky. Travel-writer Ernest Ingersoll once called this garden "a gigantic peep-show in pantomime." Novelist Helen Hunt thought it "the very climax of some supernatural catastrophe" And all-American hero Charles A. Lindbergh was fully convinced that he had never seen "more spectacular and magnificent place."
• Best Season: Spring
• Gear: Long Pants, Hiking Shoes, WATER and a Camera!

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