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Off the Beaten Trail: Plan a spring trip to the Paint Mines

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The eastern plains of Colorado are a verdant landscape of short-grass prairie and colorful blossoms in May and June. Erosion has exposed the unique geological shapes in their various colors, all surrounded by the rolling hills of the prairie. The region around and in the Paint Mines has been used by humans for at least 9,000 years.

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Estes Park Trail-Gazette

Off the Beaten Trail: Plan a spring trip to the Paint Mines

It may be snowing this week, but all the moisture that comes in March and April makes the eastern plains of Colorado a verdant landscape of short-grass prairie and colorful blossoms in May and June. Sometimes a view of the eastern plains, however, doesn’t reveal everything there is to see. More often than not, this vast landscape that stretches from the U.S. Interstate 25 corridor all the way to the Kansas border, looks flat. But stop to take a …

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