Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Grand Junction
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Grand Junction? These 9 are the genuinely strange ones — Elsewhere Studios, Hanging Flume Overlook, Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Grand Junction they'd never find on their own.
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Elsewhere Studios
Paonia's hundred-year-old Elsewhere house — once a General Electric building, now the 'Temple of the Muse' —…
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Hanging Flume Overlook
In the late 1880s, St. Louis investors paid crews to dangle from ropes off a sheer Dolores Canyon wall and bo…
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Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range
Congress set aside exactly three ranges in America specifically for wild horses, and this is the one hiding b…
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Mike the Headless Chicken Sculpture
In September 1945, Fruita farmer Lloyd Olsen swung an axe at a rooster named Mike and missed the brain stem.…
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Rifle Mountain Park Ice Caves
Every December, spring water seeping through the limestone of Rifle Creek's canyon freezes into four caves of…
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Star Drive-In Theatre
George and Elizabeth DeVries lit this screen on April 19, 1950 — The Younger Brothers on the bill — and their…
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Tru Vu Drive-In
Delta's single screen has been throwing light at the high desert since March 1955, when the opening bill pair…
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Unaweep Canyon
Every canyon on Earth drains one way — except this one. Unaweep flows out both ends: East Creek to the Gunnis…
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Smuggler Mine Tour
Aspen's wealth was dug out of this mountain. In June 1879, prospectors Edward Fuller and Con Allbright staked…