. Tourists' handbook descriptive of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah . is held annually. MONUMENT PARK. Monument Park, Edgerton station, sixty-seven miles south from Denver andeight miles northward from Colorado Springs and Manitou, is a pleasant daysexcursion. The Pines, a comfortable hotel, situated in the center of the Park,one-half mile from the depot, commanding a fine view of Pikes Peak andCheyenne Mountain Range, is open at all times for the accommodation of guestsand can furnish saddle-horses and carriages on premises. This park is chieflyremarkable for its very fantastic forms, in which
. Tourists' handbook descriptive of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah . is held annually. MONUMENT PARK. Monument Park, Edgerton station, sixty-seven miles south from Denver andeight miles northward from Colorado Springs and Manitou, is a pleasant daysexcursion. The Pines, a comfortable hotel, situated in the center of the Park,one-half mile from the depot, commanding a fine view of Pikes Peak andCheyenne Mountain Range, is open at all times for the accommodation of guestsand can furnish saddle-horses and carriages on premises. This park is chieflyremarkable for its very fantastic forms, in which time and the action of air andwater have worn the cream-colored sandstone rocks, which the valleys haveexposed, forming grotesque groups of figures, some of them resembling humanbeings, viz.: Dutch Wedding, Quaker Meeting, Lone Sentinel, Dutch Parliament,Vulcans Anvil and W^orkshop, Romeo and Juliet, Necropolis or Silent City, TheDuchess, Mother Judy and Colonnade; all of these and many others too numerousto mention are within easy walking distance of The
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