The Dolores River Canyon is located in southwestern Colorado, USA, west of the town of Naturita and north of the town of Dove Creek. Dolores River Canyon is a dramatic canyon composed of red

Wingate Sandstone The Wingate Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States which crops out in northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Geology Wingate Sandstone is particularly ...

. The entire canyon sits on lands administered by the

Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's la ...

and has been proposed for wilderness designation under the provisions of the 1964 Wilderness Act. The

Hanging Flume The Hanging Flume was an open water chute (known as a flume) built over the Dolores River Canyon in Colorado. The Montrose Placer Mining Company built the flume in the 1880s to facilitate gold mining. Some sections of the flume remain attached to ...

is located on the canyon wall.

References

* Canyons and gorges of Colorado Geology of Colorado Protected areas of Montezuma County, Colorado Wilderness areas of Colorado Bureau of Land Management areas in Colorado Landforms of Montezuma County, Colorado {{Colorado-protected-area-stub