Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheater
During my last couple days in Boulder/Denver, I met up with a girl named Rachel who was also couch surfing for a couple nights at Dave’s house. As we shared our stories of our travels, she told me how she had been practicing Kundalini Yoga for a while in Florida… very cool, especially since it’s a form of yoga that is not well-known in the USA, and it’s the style of yoga that I’ve been doing my whole life. It turns out that she needed a ride west, and I was leaving in a couple days, so it worked out perfect that I would have a travel buddy for the next part of my journey.
As we were leaving Boulder and starting to head West, we stopped at a place just outside of Denver called Red Rocks Amphiteater (wiki, official website). The area has a large collection of massive boulders and rock formations. In particular, there is a natural amphitheater shape formed by two, three hundred-foot monoliths (Ship Rock and Creation Rock) that provide natural acoustic resonance making it a great place for concerts. Seats have been carved into the top of a low-lying rock between the pillars which fit up to 9,450 people. In addition to the amphitheater, the nearby rocks in the area also contain many dinosaur fossils which are viewable by nearby hiking trails and a museum.
Unfortunately my camera ran out after a few shots, so I wasn’t able to get any pictures of the amphitheater itself. But I did get some beautiful shots of the hiking trail in the surrounding area.
For more photos, there is a photo gallery on the Red Rocks website, and here’s a link to Flickr photos.
Beautiful!