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Review:
The Gates of Lodore Trail is a 0.9-mile out-and-back trail that is used primarily for hiking, trail running, and camping year-round. Located at the Gates of Lodore Campground in the northernmost section of the Dinosaur National Monument, the nature trail is set around the Canyon of Lodore, a deep chasm surrounded by layered, reddish cliffs of quartzite and sandstone with a rapid-filled stretch of the Green River at the bottom which is only accessible by boating or rafting. Named by explorer John Wesley Powell, who was inspired by Robert Southey’s poem 'Cataract of Lodore,' the evocatively-titled Gates of Lodore is a spectacular sight to behold.
Dinosaur, CO
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