COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT, Colo.—A big birthday bash is planned for the Colorado National Monument.
The site near Grand Junction was declared a national monument a century ago and the staff is throwing a party Saturday.
The festivities start at 11 a.m. with a ceremony under a tent in the visitor’s center parking lot. Shuttle buses will run from the Dinosaur Journey’s Museum in nearby Fruita starting at 9:30 a.m.
The buses will return starting at 1:30 p.m.
New exhibits will be on display in visitor’s center after the ceremony.
The 32-square-mile monument includes red-rock monoliths and canyons. The site’s 23-mile Rim Rock Drive winds around cliffs and gives a road-side view of geology dating between 150 million and about 1.7 billion years old.
