Welcome to Redlands Fault

Welcome to Redlands Fault.  This site was inspired by the beauty in the Grand Valley in western Colorado with the towns of Palisade, Clifton, Grand Junction, Fruita, Loma and Mack arranged like pearls on a necklace-thread defined by the Colorado River.  At the base of the Colorado National Monument nestled up along the northern edge of the valley is the Redlands, once an expansive range of irrigated orchards.  Redlands Fault is a play on words as it is the fault of this Redlands neighborhood that shifted our bearings and grounded us in place there.  The beauty of the red cliffs and black rocks exposed along the Colorado National Monument is due also to the displacement and uplift along the Redlands Fault with its trace at the base of the cliffs. 

This place though is also a convenient starting point to explore the trails in the Valley but also to venture in all directions of the compass including west into the canyons and redrocks of Utah and eastward to the volcanic intrusions of the San Juan Mountains.