Royal Gorge (also Grand Canyon of the Arkansas) is a canyon on the Arkansas River near Cañon City, Colorado. With a width of 50 feet at its base and a few hundred feet at its top, and a depth of 1200 feet in places, the 10-mile-long canyon is a narrow, steep crevasse through the granite of Fremont Peak. Grand Canyon, Arizona canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Lower Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a tributary of the Mississippi which flows east and southeast through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the state of Arkansas. ... Cañon City is a city located in Fremont County, Colorado. ... For the Fremont Peak east of Salinas, California, see Fremont Peak (California) Fremont Peak is the third highest peak in Wyoming and straddles the boundary between Fremont and Sublette counties. ...

Royal Gorge in 1881

About 3 million years ago as the Rocky Mountains rose from the surrounding plains, a small rivulet that would become the Arkansas River rose with them. Over the millennia, it cut a deep channel for itself through the surrounding granite, at a rate of about one foot every 2,500 years. The gorge's peculiar shape, contrasted to broad canyons such as the Grand Canyon, can be attributed to this long, direct erosion through hard rock. From here: http://www. ... White Goat Wilderness Area, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ... Grand Cañon at the foot of the Toroweap - looking east, by William Henry Holmes The Grand Canyon is a colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. ...

Before European settlement, Native Americans of the Ute people wintered in Royal Gorge for its protection from wind and relatively mild climate. The Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Cheyenne used Royal Gorge on buffalo hunting expeditions as an access point to mountain meadow regions such as South Park Basin. Delegation of Ute Indians in Washington, D.C. in 1880. ... Quanah Parker, the last major chief of the Comanche Indians Comanche territory Flag The Comanche Nation is a Native American group of approximately 10,000 members, about half of whom live in Oklahoma with the remainder concentrated in Texas, California, and New Mexico. ... Original territory of the Kiowa Tribe The Kiowa are a nation of Native Americans who lived mostly in the plains of west Texas, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of the arrival of Europeans. ... Alternative meaning: Lakota, Côte dIvoire is a département of Côte dIvoire. ... Cheyenne lodges with buffalo meat drying, 1870 The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains, closely allied with the Arapaho and loosely allied with the Lakota (Sioux). ... South Park, Colorado is a high grassland basin in the geographic center of Colorado, in Park County. ...

Colorado's Rocky Mountain region fell under Spanish claims, and conquistador expeditions of the 17th century or fur traders may have seen Royal Gorge in their traversal of the area. The first recorded instance of a European arrival, however, is the Pike expedition of 1806. Zebulon Pike's group built a crude shelter in the gorge and explored the area, descending on horseback over the frozen Arkansas. Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who achieved the Conquista (this Spanish term is generally accepted by historians), i. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... The fur trade was a huge part in the early economic development of North America. ... United States Army Captain Zebulon Pike led the Pike expedition (July 15, 1806 – July 1, 1807) to explore the south and west of the Louisiana Purchase. ... Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779–April 27, 1813) was an American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. ...

Nearby Cañon City was founded in 1860 to exploit possible mineral deposits in the area. Discovery of silver and lead near Leadville in 1877 prompted a race to build rail access to the area. The consequent Royal Gorge Railroad War between crews of the Santa Fe Railroad and the Denver & Rio Grande. Royal Gorge was a bottleneck along the Arkansas too narrow for both rail lines to go through, with no other reasonable access to the South Park area. The Royal Gorge War ended after two years of low-level guerrilla warfare between the two companies after Federal intervention prompted the so-called Treaty of Boston. The D&RG completed its line and leased it for use by the Santa Fe. View of Mount Massive looking west from Harrison Street in downtown Leadville Leadville is the county seat of Lake County, Colorado. ... Categories: Rail stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | Arizona railroads | California railroads | Colorado railroads | Illinois railroads | Iowa railroads | Kansas railroads | Louisiana railroads | Missouri railroads | Nebraska railroads | New Mexico railroads | Oklahoma railroads | Texas railroads ... Categories: Rail stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | Colorado railroads | New Mexico railroads | Utah railroads ...

Royal Gorge in 1987

In the 1890s Royal Gorge was used as a passenger route for transcontinental rail travel. Four trains per day went through the gorge. Alternate routes through the mountains made Royal Gorge fall from favor for transcontinental use, and passenger trains on the main line stopped in 1967. A sightseeing train now follows the route through the gorge. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (853x561, 320 KB)Photo by User: Nv8200p taken in July, 1987 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (853x561, 320 KB)Photo by User: Nv8200p taken in July, 1987 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1929 Cañon City authorized the building of the Royal Gorge Bridge, which at 1,053 feet above the river is the highest suspension bridge over water in the world. The bridge forms the kernel of Royal Gorge Park, a theme park owned and run by the city. Other activities in Royal Gorge area include whitewater rafting and rock climbing. The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction near Cañon City, Colorado, within a 360 acre (1. ... Rafting in Brazil. ... Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...