List of Colorado Natural Areas
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The U.S. State of Colorado has designated 93 natural areas of the state for special protection.[1] The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora, fauna, ecological, geological, and paleontologic features.
Natural Areas
- Aiken Canyon Natural Area[2]
- Antero-Salt Creek Natural Area[3]
- Arikaree River Natural Area[4]
- Badger Wash Natural Area[5]
- Blacks Gulch Natural Area[1]
- Blue Mountain Natural Area[6]
- Bonny Prairie Natural Area[7] in Bonny Lake State Park
- Boulder Mountain Park Natural Area[8] in Boulder Mountain Park
- Brush Creek Fen Natural Area[9]
- California Park Natural Area[10]
- Castlewood Canyon Natural Area[11] in Castlewood Canyon State Park
- Chalk Bluffs Natural Area[12]
- Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Natural Area[13]
- Comanche Grassland Lesser Prairie Chicken Natural Area[14] in Comanche National Grassland
- Copeland Willow Carr Natural Area[15]
- Cross Mountain Canyon Natural Area[16]
- Dakota Hogback Natural Area[17] commonly known as Dinosaur Ridge in Matthews/Winters Park
- Deer Gulch Natural Area[18]
- Dome Rock Natural Area[19] in Dome Rock State Wildlife Area
- Droney Gulch Natural Area[20]
- Duck Creek Natural Area[1]
- Dudley Bluffs Natural Area[21]
- East Lost Park Natural Area[1] in Pike National Forest
- East Sand Dunes Natural Area[22] in State Forest State Park
- Elephant Rocks Natural Area[23]
- Escalante Canyon Natural Area[24]
- Fairview Natural Area[25]
- Fourmile Creek Natural Area[26]
- Fruita Paleontological Locality[27]
- Garden Park Fossil Locality[28]
- Gateway Palisade Natural Area[29]
- Geneva Basin Iron Fens Natural Area[30]
- Gothic Research Natural Area[31] in Gunnison National Forest
- Gunnison Gravels Research Natural Area[32]
- Haviland Lake Natural Area[33] in Haviland Lake State Wildlife Area
- High Creek Fen Natural Area[34]
- High Mesa Grassland Natural Area[35]
- Hoosier Ridge Research Natural Area[1] on the Continental Divide in Pike National Forest and White River National Forest
- Hurricane Canyon Natural Area[36] in Pike National Forest
- Indian Spring Natural Area[37]
- Indian Springs Trace Fossil Locality[38]
- Irish Canyon Natural Area[39]
- Jimmy Creek Natural Area[40]
- Ken-Caryl Ranch Natural Area[41]
- Kremmling Cretaceous Ammonite Locality[42]
- Limestone Ridge Natural Area[43]
- Lookout Mountain Natural Area[44]
- Lower Greasewood Creek Natural Area[45]
- McElmo Natural Area[46]
- Mexican Cut Natural Area[47]
- Mini-Wheeler Natural Area[48]
- Miramonte Reservoir Natural Area[49] in Dan Noble State Wildlife Area
- Mishak Lakes Natural Area[50]
- Mount Callahan Natural Area[51]
- Mount Callahan Saddle Natural Area[52]
- Mount Emmons Iron Fen Natural Area[53] in Gunnison National Forest
- Mount Goliath Natural Area[54] in Arapaho National Forest
- Narraguinnep Natural Area[55] in San Juan National Forest
- Needle Rock Natural Area[56]
- North Park Phacelia Natural Area[57]
- Orient Mine Natural Area[58]
- Owl Canyon Pinyon Grove Natural Area[59]
- Paradise Park Natural Area[60] in Rocky Mountain National Park
- Park Creek Hogback Natural Area[61]
- Pyramid Rock Natural Area[62]
- Rabbit Valley Natural Area[63]
- Rajadero Canyon Natural Area[64]
- Raven Ridge Natural Area[65]
- Redcloud Peak Natural Area[66]
- Rough Canyon Natural Area[67]
- Roxborough Natural Area[68] in and near Roxborough State Park
- Ryan Gulch Natural Area[1]
- Saddle Mountain Natural Area[69] in Pike National Forest
- San Miguel River at Tabeguache Creek Natural Area[70]
- Sand Creek Natural Area[71]
- Shell Duck Creek Natural Area[1]
- Shell Rock Natural Area[72]
- Slumgullion Earthflow Natural Area[73] in San Juan National Forest
- South Beaver Creek Natural Area[74]
- South Boulder Creek Natural Area[75]
- South Cathedral Bluffs Natural Area[76]
- Specimen Mountain Research Natural Area[77] in Rocky Mountain National Park
- Staunton Natural Area[1] in Staunton State Park
- Tabeguache Natural Area[1] in Uncompahgre National Forest
- Tamarack Ranch Natural Area[78] in Tamarack Ranch State Wildlife Area
- Treasurevault Mountain Natural Area[79]
- Trinidad K-T Boundary Natural Area[80] in Trinidad Lake State Park
- Two Buttes Natural Area[1]
- Unaweep Seep Research Natural Area[81]
- Wacker Ranch Natural Area[82]
- West Creek Natural Area[83] in Rocky Mountain National Park
- Wheeler Geologic Natural Area[84] in the La Garita Wilderness of Rio Grande National Forest
- White Rocks Natural Area[85]
- Yanks Gulch/Upper Greasewood Creek Natural Area[86]
- Zapata Falls Natural Area[87]
See also
- United States of America
- List of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern in Colorado
- List of Colorado Natural Areas
- List of Colorado scenic and historic byways
- List of Colorado state parks
- List of Colorado state wildlife areas
- List of Colorado trails
- List of federal lands in Colorado
- List of National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
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