Red Rocks Park just became one of four unique places to be named a national historic landmark. The National Park Service delivered the announcement on Tuesday and extended this distinction into Mount Morrison Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, a spot where workers stayed while they built the park’s famed amphitheater in the 1930s.
"The outstanding architecture and landscape architecture of Red Rocks Park and Mount Morrison Civilian Conservation Corps Camp illustrate the principles and practices of New Deal-era naturalistic park design and master planning in a metropolitan park as well as the use of Civilian Conservation Corps labor to develop such a park," the National Park Service said in a news release.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is excited about the honor.
"This designation reinforces Red Rocks Park and its remarkable landscape of red sandstone monoliths as a true icon for Colorado," Hickenlooper said in a statement. "The Mount Morrison CCC camp is another historical treasure in the park, and one of the few surviving camps in the nation."
He went on to say that Red Rocks is "renowned as the only naturally occurring, acoustically perfect amphitheater in the world, and the diverse landscape attracts thousands of outdoor enthusiasts and even dinosaur fans."
The Beatles, Van Halen, and Sam Smith are among the artists that have performed at the popular amphitheater in the past.
Slipknot, J. Cole, and Tim McGraw are scheduled to perform at the venue later this year.
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