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messages from the region's early settlers, create Colorado's most desolate, haunting gal-
lery.
The images are attributed to two of Douglass Canyon's first communities: the Fremont
Culture, who lived here from about 0 to 1300AD, and the Ute, who lived here from
around 1300 to 1881. It was the journal of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan mis-
sionary who came through on the famed Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776, that
first named this corridor Cañyon Pintado (Painted Canyon).
It's an unforgiving, arid and dusty stretch, but over the past several years the BLM has
made the self-guided drive much easier to access, with educational signs and maintained
turn-offs and trails. Look for green and white BLM rods that indicate the sites along Hwy
139.
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