Paradox is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office located in the Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The Paradox Post Office has the ZIP Code 81429.
Paradox wooden storefront in 2010
Road to Paradox Cemetery
Paradox Valley is a basin located in western Montrose County in the U.S. state of Colorado. The dry, sparsely populated valley is named after the apparently paradoxical course of the Dolores River—instead of flowing down the length of the valley, the river cuts across the middle and through the sheer walls of large mesas on either side. The valley is the site of a Bureau of Reclamation salinity-control project which has caused thousands of earthquakes, and is the proposed location of a new uranium mill which would be the first built in the United States in over 25 years.
Paradox Valley as seen from near the southwest rim. The Dolores River is at the left edge.
The entrenched Dolores River (lower right to upper left) is seen crossing Paradox Valley (center) in this simulated view