Displaying these photos does not endorse nor promote the destruction
of the hogback area by visitors who tear up our city land with motorcycles
and ATV's.
There is presently an ongoing campaign by Cañon City residents to regulate
the access of off-road vehicles in all Dakota Ridge and Skyline Drive Hogback
areas.
Skyline Drive
Road Seems to Disappear |
Skyline Drive
Road Appears to
Suddenly Drop Off
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Skyline Dinosaur Tracks
in Cretaceous Sandstone |
Skyline Tracks
Scale View
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Skyline Fossils
An Explanation |
Skyline Fossils
More Information |
Skyline Dinosaur Tracks
Close-up |
Skyline Tracks
Scale View |
Skyline Drive
Tilted Rock Layers |
Skyline Drive
Tilted Ridge |
Skyline Drive
View of Hwy 50 and the Mountains to the West
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Skyline Drive
View of Hwy 50
Looking West
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On Top of the Hogbacks
Enjoying the Views
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View of Canon City
from the top of Skyline Drive
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Backyard View
A portion of the Dakota Sandstone Hogback Ridge
known as Skyline Drive |
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SKYLINE DRIVE - A few miles west of Cañon
City, Colorado, is the entrance to Skyline Drive, off Highway 50. It
is a one-way, paved road that runs about 3 miles along an extremely
narrow 800 foot high ridge and winds along following the crest of the
Dakota hogback. In many locations the ridge is only as wide as the road,
with sheer drops on both sides. Skyline Drive is open year round (weather
permitting) but one must drive slowly and carefully!
Sometimes the road seems to disappear and drop off to nowhere, alluding
to a sensation I can only describe as both scary and awesome.
"The Arkansas River has excavated much of the Tertiary piedmont
deposits and cut deeply into the older Cretaceous marine rocks between
Cañon City and the Kansas border. The upturned layers along the
mountain front, marked by hogback ridges and intervening valleys, continue
nearly uninterrupted around the south end of the Front Range into the
embayment in the mountains at Cañon City".1
1 The
GEOLOGIC STORY of The GREAT PLAINS By DONALD E. TRIMBLE, GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY BULLETIN 1493 United States Government Printing Office, Washington
: 1980.
Photographs of Skyline Drive, Cañon City, Colorado
were taken in October 2004.
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