On Friday, October 9, 2020, I set out to create a route/attain an FKT/OKT/new route connecting each of the 10 named canyons within the boundaries of the Colorado National Monument.

The Colorado National Monument lies in western Colorado just south of Grand Junction and Fruita.  It consists of 20,500 acres of deep sandstone canyons and monoliths along the Colorado Plateau.  The area was officially established as Colorado National Monument on May 24, 1911 after John Otto spent years of research and development in preserving this as a national monument.