Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

This national landmark is situated in the City of Colorado Springs. It is a vast park of towering red rock sand stone formations, surrounded by pinyon and juniper schrubs and ponderoso pines. Here is how the park got its name: "It was August of 1859 when two surveyors started out from Denver City to begin a townsite, soon to be called Colorado City. While exploring nearby locations, they came upon a beautiful area of sandstone formations. M. S. Beach, who related this incident, suggested that it would be a "capital place for a beer garden" when the country grew up. His companion, Rufus Cable, a "young and poetic man", exclaimed, "Beer Garden! Why it is a fit place for the Gods to assemble. We will call it the Garden of the Gods." It has been so called ever since."

Balancing rock!

Kissing Camels.