Rulison, Colorado
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Rulison is an unincorporated community in Garfield County,
Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...
, United States. It is most notable for being the location of the
Project Rulison Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was an underground 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about SE of the town of Grand Valley, Colorado (now named Parachute, Col ...
nuclear test on September 10, 1969. The town of
Parachute, Colorado The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,085 at the 2010 census. The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Etymolog ...
is nearby, and Rulison is accessible from
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U.S. Route 6 U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to P ...
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Populated places in Garfield County, Colorado Unincorporated communities in Colorado {{Colorado-geo-stub