Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison has always been a showstopper--now it's a national park
As I stood at Chasm View and gazed at the Gunnison River, I felt as if I were staring into the center of the earth. Instead of the molten rock that I learned in science class is at the planet's core, or the fiery Hades of myth, I saw a torrent of raging whitewater threading through a narrow slot in the rock.
The river, constricted between sheer walls of dark granite and powering ...