Colorado National Monument was a pleasant surprise, but only a surprise at all because of how little research I did before my trip out west in 2019. When I pulled into Grand Junction, Colorado, I called a friend to ask what there was to see in the area, and this was the immediate response. It’s practically in Grand Junction. It took about an hour to drive through the park on Rimrock Drive from the south to the north, much of the drive hugging the canyon edge on right side of the car.