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spacious and peaceful

Sunset over the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, with the expansive San Luis Valley in the foreground. One of the outstanding features of the San Luis Valley is it's sheer size, which this image captures fairly well. The valley is 120 miles long and over 50 miles wide and has an average elevation of 7,765 ft. above sea level. The road that cuts through the left foreground of the picture is known as the "T Road" and runs between Highway 17 and the small town of Crestone, CO, which sits at the feet of the Sangre de Cristo Range on the east side of the valley. Just 10 miles south of Crestone, as the crow flies, is the beautiful and spectacular Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

 

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Uploaded on December 18, 2015
Taken on August 27, 2015