Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

51 Trails 113 POIs 2 Peaks 2 Campsites 24 Viewpoints
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Description

The park protects a quarter of the Gunnison River, which slices sheer canyon walls from dark Precambrian-era rock. The canyon features some of the steepest cliffs and oldest rock in North America, and is a popular site for river rafting and rock climbing. The deep, narrow canyon is composed of gneiss and schist which appears black when in shadow.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Cedar Point 303 Yards
  • Chasm View
  • Chasm View Trail
  • Cross Fissures 357 Yards
  • Dead Horse Trail
  • Devils Lookout 607 Yards
  • Dragon Point Trail
  • Elephant Skin Road
  • Gunnison Route
  • Long Draw
  • North Vista Trail
  • Oak Flat Loop Trail
  • Painted Wall 200 Yards
  • Pulpit Rock Overlook 184 Yards
  • Rim Rock Nature Trail
  • Rock Point 294 Yards
  • Uplands Trail
  • Warner Point Trail
  • Warner Route

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Balanced Rock View
  • Big Island View
  • Cedar Point
  • Chasm View
  • Cross Fissures View
  • Deadhorse Gulch
  • Devils Lookout
  • Dragon Point
  • Exclamation Point
  • Gunnison Point
  • High Point
  • Island Peaks View
  • Jones Summit
  • Kneeling Camel View
  • Lions Spring
  • Lytle Point
  • Mesa Inclinado
  • North Rim Campground
  • North Rim Ranger Station
  • Painted Wall
  • Painted Wall View
  • Pleasant Park
  • Poison Spring Hill
  • Pulpit Rock
  • Rock Point
  • Serpent Point
  • Signal Hill
  • South Rim Campground
  • South Rim Visitor Center
  • Spruce Tree Point
  • Sunset View
  • The Narrows
  • The Narrows View
  • Tomichi Point
  • Vernal Mesa
  • Warner Point

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The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©dw_ross https://www.flickr.com/photos/dw_ross/7903350122/ CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).