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Garden of the Gods

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Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs, Southern Illinois, United States. The name of the park was said to be originally received in the month of August in 1859 after two surveyors were walking around the surrounding landscape while they were selected to help set up a nearby Colorado City. It was said that after the two surveyors found the location, one of them suggested that it should become a capital place for a beer garden but the two were astounded by the weird rock formations, and one of surveyors made a statement that "the place was a fit place for the gods to assemble" and so they referred to is as the Garden of the Gods. It has become one of the most visited destinations in Colorado. The adjoining wilderness area is over 320 million years old and covers about 3,300 acres of beautiful old growth forest and the sediment rock in this area is over 4 miles deep. Visiting this location will be a wonderful experience, it can show you things you have never seen before and once you go to the Garden of the Gods, maps are provided for its guest all year round.

The location is especially well known for its marvelous geological features. The fractured bedrock has created some interesting rock formations that have formed into a number of things with various colors such as purple, blue, red and white sandstones. Many prehistoric fossils of plants and dinosaurs have also been found at this site. Some of the most abnormal formation of rocks are hogs back and the kissing camel. Hogs back is particularly named so because it resembles the back of a pig, and 'the kissing camel' appears to be two very large camels sitting face to face with their lips touching. Another famous landmark is the 'balancing rock' or 'balanced rock' which features a boulder resting on other rocks which looks as if it is balanced but instead it is tightly adjoined to the bedrock by a stem

The magnificence of the rock formations in the garden attracts many rock climbers to come yearly while many people flock to the Garden of the Gods because it has numerous trails for mountain biking, walking, hiking and horseback riding. Some of the trails like Perkins have been smoothed off to fight against the erosion of the central garden caused by visitors. The Garden of the Gods has two main trail systems, the observation trail and the river-to-river trail, observation trail being the most popular trail. The observation trail follows a 25 mile stone path that goes up to a set of location where you can look over to the Garden of the Gods wilderness area and views of extraordinary rock formations.
There is a lot of history behind the landscape formation of these trails. There are other trails that lead to locations such as Big H, Indian Point, Anvil Rock, and Mushroom Rock. These trails merge together for about five and a half miles and are interconnecting. River-to-River, the second main trail, goes through the east end of the park from High Knob just below the camping area and continues to the west crossing the blacktop to the Observation Trail area. The River-to-River Trail then extends to the south below the rock formations, before bearing west again and then continues for 8 miles to Herod. When you are about to leave the garden, there is a good camping area about one and a half miles to the west that has a stream for water, then there is no more water for 3 miles. Outside of the rocks the park has a unique blend of plants and wildlife from the grasslands, foothills and mountains that many enjoy to visit

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