In a visit to the Alluvial Fan area of Rocky Mountain National Park in 2017, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a plan to distribute more than $50 million to national parks for ...

Alluvial Fan was created at 5:30 a.m. on July 15th, 1982. Decades before and high above Horseshoe Park, a dam was built at Lawn Lake.

The image below zooms in to the beautiful alluvial fan. Note how the agricultural land is out on the outer part of the fan. In most alluvial fans there typically an overall decrease in grain size ...

An easy half-mile trail leads across the boulder field and through the upper part of the Alluvial Fan to a view of Horseshoe Falls. Elevation gain is only 56 or 63 feet, depending on where you begin.

Rocky Mountain National Park crews have begun work to build a new accessible pedestrian trail in the Alluvial Fan area, after the previous trail was destroyed as boulders were tossed around in the ...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (CBS4) -- A popular hiking area in Rocky Mountain National Park was closed Monday and will remain closed for a couple months.

This fan is on the inside of the rim of Mojave Crater, a 60-kilometer-wide (40-mile-wide) impact crater near the equator of Mars. The structure matches an Earthly alluvial fan almost perfectly.

Specifically, the scientists aimed to determine alluvial fan sedimentation links to monsoon rainfall patterns affected by geological timescales of ~23,000 years (precession, the "wobble" of Earth ...

The Alluvial Fan area will be closed for major trail work beginning Monday and running through Sept. 24, according to a park news release.