Black+Canyon+of+Gunnison

Other western canyons are as sheer, some are deeper, narrower or longer –but no canyon in the whole North America is at once as deep, narrow and darkly forbidden as the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. Deriving its name from the darkness of its gloom-shrouded walls, this wild chasm starts near Colorado’s crystal dam and carries the turbulent Gunnison River down 927 feet on its journey to its confluence with the North Fork River, some 25 miles westward. From the canyon’s sunny rim, the visitor looks off onto the world of wild desolation that has been