Autumn on Grand Mesa, Lands End Observatory area, Lands End Road, Grand Mesa, Colorado, September 30, 2015

The Lands End Observatory was a forest ranger observatory that overlooks a wide region of Colorado to Utah, sitting about 6,000 feet above the Colorado River.

The building in the picture isn't the Observatory. It has restrooms for those who make it out this far.

"The observatory was built by the United States Forest Service and the Works Progress Administration in 1936-37, with some assistance from two Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) side camps."

From the forest service sign near the observatory:
"You have reached Land's End Observatory on Colorado's highest mesa, the Grand Mesa, 10,500 feet above sea level.

Land's End Road was once known as the Veterans' Road. When the Great Depression left many World War l veterans unemployed, President Roosevelt responded by opening the already created Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to include them. Thus, between June 1933 and May 1934, the 200 veterans who were brought to Land's End camp completed 9.2 miles of road. They were paid a dollar a day for their work. Ranging in age from thirty-three to fifty-five, the veterans were hailed as "a remarkable group of men, skilled in almost every imaginable trade." They lived in army tents roughly eleven miles below the mesa rim while clearing the brush for the road. The toughest part of the Land's Ends Road, from the Wild Road Picnic Area to the rim, was completed over the next two summers by Civil Service machine operators and a few civilian workers hired by the United States Forest Service. "Built the whole road," said the project engineer, "blasting and all, without injuries."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%27s_End_Observatory

www.outdoorproject.com/adventures/colorado/special-destin...

Taken on: September 30, 2015

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