Browns Canon
Browns Canyon National Monument is a 21,586 acres national monument in Chaffee County, Colorado, that was designated as such by President Barack Obama under the Antiquities Act on February 19, 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: Protected habitat in Chaffee County, Colorado
- Also known as: “Brown Canon”, “Browns Cañon”, “Browns Canyon”, and “Browns Canyon National Monument”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smeltertown.
Smeltertown
Hamlet
Smeltertown is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population of the Smeltertown CDP was 88 at the United States Census 2020. The Salida post office serves the area. Smeltertown is situated 5 miles southeast of Browns Canon.
Browns Canon
- Category: National Monument of the United States
- Location: Chaffee, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.61194° or 38° 36′ 43″ northLongitude
-106.06002° or 106° 3′ 36″ westElevation
7,320 feet (2,231 metres)Open location code
85CMJW6Q+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 151353665OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
Discover Browns Canon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Browns Canon” goes by many names.
- French: “Browns Canyon National Monument”
- German: “Browns Canyon National Monument”
- Russian: “Национальный памятник Браунс-Каньон”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Browns Canon”. Photo: Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0.