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The view from the top rows of Red Rocks Amphitheatre, looking down the seats toward the stage with its red roof, red sandstone around it, and the Denver skyline on the plains

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Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre

I took this from the top rows at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, near Morrison, Colorado, in November 2014. The seats drop down toward the stage, with its red roof set between the red sandstone, and Denver's skyline sits out on the plains beyond the dry hills. There was no show that afternoon, just people scattered on the seats and down around the stage. It was a clear afternoon, around 53, with almost no wind.

Red Rocks sits at about 6,450 feet, with the seating built between two big sandstone monoliths, Ship Rock and Creation Rock. The park stays open to walk around on days when there isn't a concert, and that's how I found it that afternoon. The other photos are from the same stop: one looking up the face of a sandstone monolith against a clear blue sky, and one zoomed in on the Denver skyline over the dry foothills.

A tall layered red sandstone monolith at Red Rocks, rising above a low stone wall under a clear blue sky
One of the sandstone monoliths at Red Rocks, photographed the same afternoon against a clear blue sky.
The Denver skyline in the distance beyond dry golden foothills and houses, photographed from Red Rocks
Denver's skyline from the same stop, looking out over the dry foothills.

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