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Browns Canyon National Monument

The remote and rugged landscape in central Colorado is known for outdoor recreation by day and exceptional stargazing by night.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Browns Canyon National Monument.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and boundary data from the U.S. Department of the Interior. Photograph by Bob Wick/BLM, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 13, 2025
Data acquired June 14, 2025

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Photograph

Collection:: U.S. National Parks