For more vacation opportunities in the local area - MainTour Fort Collins Colorado Vacation Adventure . By Steve Cohen. The Adventure Guide to the High Southwest packs a punch for adventurous travelers, offering the thrills and spills of the Four Corners region in fantastic detail. The mammoth canyons, vast deserts and haunting mountains of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico offer a vast canvas on which to paint your own adventure. Elevations here begin at 8,000 feet above sea level in the valleys but then rises dramatically with 59 peaks 12,000 feet or higher.
Perpetual snowfall decorates the canyons and tall peaks.
Even small glaciers are found today at the head of some high elevation canyons. This area gained national park status in 1915. Also noteworthy is the two separate climates. First is the great pine forests and second is the alpine tundra located above the tree line. Also in abundance are elk, beaver, golden eagles, hawks.