Vega State Park
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Vega State Park is a 1,823-acre Colorado state park in Mesa County, Colorado in the United States. Vega Reservoir is a fishing destination and is located at an elevation of 7,696 feet. Year-round recr
The reservoir in early spring, still partially frozen.
Grand Mesa
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The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States. It is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world. It has an area of about 500 square miles and stretches for about 40 miles
Vega State Park
…grasses including mule's ear, tufted hairgrass, lupins, reed canarygrass, water sedge, and timothy-grass. Vega State Park is on the northeastern edge of Grand Mesa, a broad, flat-topped erosional remnant. Exposed rocks on the mesa from the Cretaceous and Tertiary eras are capped with basaltic lava flows. The lava…
A view north across Grand Mesa National Forest.
A panoramic view of the Grand Mesa, with Mt. Garfield and the Book Cliffs visible on the left
Cliff edge on western face of the mesa.
Typical landscape on top of the mesa.