Field Trips :: POGIs

Here it is, finally, our new ON-004-02 Colorado POGI* map. We hope that using Google Maps will make it more accessible and useful for finding your way around our beautiful state! With a wealth of fascinating geological features, venues, parks, and other attractions, a geology-themed vacation can be fun for the whole family. We are also making available our working ON-004-02 POGI spreadsheet that contains a lot of detailed information on the various points. While we have carefully checked all of the items on the map, especially because of COVID issues, it is best to refer to the individual pop-up web links for a particular point for the most up-to-date information. Also, this map is a work in progress, please let us know if there are places you think we should add or if you have any corrections!

* What’s a POGI? It’s our favorite term: “Points of Geologic Interest”!

ON-004-02 Colorado POGI map — features a variety of locations around the state that are of geologic, cultural, and historical interest, relating to the long history of mining, paleontology, hydrogeology, geological research, and the spectacular landscape that Colorado is known for.

CGS Master ON-004-02 POGI spreadsheet — this spreadsheet drives our POGI map, and contains as much information on the different points as we could locate on the web.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife – Colorado Natural Areas and Significant Natural Features Program — A statewide program focused on the recognition and protection of areas that contain at least one unique or high-quality natural feature of statewide significance.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife – Colorado Trail Explorer​ (CoTrex) — A comprehensive, interactive map of all public trails in Colorado, browser and app versions available.

We are also compiling a large number of field trip guides, some vintage, some new, from our collection, and will be posting them here shortly. A preliminary list is under the Resources tab. Also note some of our RockTalk blog postings cover fieldtrip opportunities around the state.

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railway Geology Train — Keep your eyes open for the once-or-twice annual Geology Train adventure, and who knows, they may end scheduling more of them based on demand!

Fremont County Heritage Commission — The Commission has authored a number of (free!) self-guided field-trip publications on geological and paleontological areas in the county.

New Mexico Geological Society — Fall Field Conference Guidebooks — the NMGS has made the peer-reviewed papers that accompany their Guidebooks free-for-download. There are a number of trips into Colorado, going back to 1950. The roadlogs are not free, but we can highly recommend them, they are well done!

USGS – Ride the Rockies — A number of USGS scientists provide illustrated geological commentary along the routes of the annual Ride the Rockies bicycle races since 2001.