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Gardens

(June 20-25, 2006)

Skip Steuart

Livia's Garden

Shawn Steigner

Garden of the Gods

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

June 25th, 2006

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This amazing collection of vertical sandstone protrusions grace the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. This park is open to the/owned by the public. Here is an excerpt from the Garden Of the Gods web site: http://www.gardenofgods.com/
By the 1870's, the railroads had forged their way west. In 1871, General William Jackson Palmer founded Colorado Springs while extending the lines of his Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. In 1879, General Palmer repeatedly urged his friend, Charles Elliott Perkins, the head of the Burlington Railroad, to establish a home in the Garden of the Gods and to build his railroad from Chicago to Colorado Springs. Although the Burlington never reached Colorado Springs directly, Perkins did purchase two-hundred and forty acres in the Garden of the Gods for a summer home in 1879. He later added to the property but never built on it, preferring to leave his wonderland in its natural state for the enjoyment of the public. Perkins died in 1907 before he made arrangements for the land to become a public park, although it had been open to the public for years. In 1909, Perkins' children, knowing their father's feeling for the Garden of the Gods, conveyed his four-hundred eighty acres to the City of Colorado Springs. It would be known forever as the Garden of the Gods "where it shall remain free to the public, where no intoxicating liquors shall be manufactured, sold, or dispensed, where no building or structure shall be erected except those necessary to properly care for, protect, and maintain the area as a public park."
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Location

USA-Canada / USA-Colorado

Lat: 38° 52' 41" N
Long: 105° 53' 51" W

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Precision is: Medium. Nearby, but not to the last decimal.

Equipment
Canon 20D - Sigma 8mm- PTGUI- PanoTools- Agnos Head

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