Garden of the Gods
A public park on the edge of Colorado Springs, about 540 hectares of red sandstone fins and towers standing up against the backdrop of Pikes Peak. Much of it was named a National Natural Landmark in 1971, and paths wind between the rocks.
- Where
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 38.8778, -104.8708
Get the Garden of the Gods stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Garden of the Gods. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Colorado volume with your photos and a note.
Near Garden of the Gods
Rocky Mountain National Park 178 km
A slice of the Front Range of the Rockies between Estes Park and Grand Lake, about 90 km northwest of Denver. The Continental Divide runs through the middle, the Colorado River rises in its northwest corner, and the land climbs from forest past alpine lakes to open mountain tundra.
Taos Pueblo 278 km
An ancient pueblo of the Tiwa-speaking Taos people at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, lived in for around a thousand years. Its multi-storey adobe houses are still home to families, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mesa Verde National Park 365 km
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
Arches National Park 405 km
More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches stand in this park just north of Moab, the densest collection of them anywhere on Earth. The best known is Delicate Arch, and the fins, spires and balanced rocks around it owe their shapes to a buried bed of salt shifting beneath the desert.
Canyonlands National Park 433 km
A maze of canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Colorado and Green rivers and their tributaries in southeastern Utah. The park was created in 1964, and its overlooks look down on layer after layer of coloured rock worn away by the two rivers.
Monument Valley 505 km
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
Crazy Horse Memorial 561 km
A mountain carving still in progress in the Black Hills, which will show the Oglala Lakota leader on horseback, pointing to his tribal land. It was commissioned by the Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear and begun by the sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, and the finished face already looks out over the hills.
Mount Rushmore 568 km
Four 18 metre tall heads of US presidents carved into granite in the Black Hills: Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. The sculptor Gutzon Borglum led the work from 1927 to 1941, helped by his son Lincoln.
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Questions
Where is Garden of the Gods?
Garden of the Gods is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Rocky Mountain National Park (178 km), Taos Pueblo (278 km), Mesa Verde National Park (365 km).
How do I get the Garden of the Gods stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Garden of the Gods and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Colorado volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Garden of the Gods before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Colorado volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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