Paleo-Indians hunted Ice Age mammoths and ancestral bison in what is now Roxborough; Colorado. In 1820; Stephen A. Long�s expedition traveled west across the plains into America�s western frontier and camped along the South Platte River where water rushed into the Platte Valley from Rocky Mountain peaks. They discovered an area described by their geologist as �a range of naked and almost perpendicular rocks . . . resembling a vast wall; parallel to the base of the mountain . . . the whole scenery truly picturesque and romantic.� During the next 200 years; Roxborough has been home to Native Americans; mountain men; homesteaders; farmers; miners; dam builders; ranchers; railroad men; cowboys; and rocket scientists. Families live in sight of hogback formations; soaring red rocks; foothills; and mountains. Thousands arrive each year to hike trails in Roxborough State Park; Waterton Canyon; Colorado Trail; and Highline Canal. Roxborough�s history; geologic wonders; and wilderness is a story of those whose eyes reached toward the stars.
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