The City of Grand Junction, Colorado
The City of Grand Junction offers a unique combination to her residents: a small town ambience with metropolitan services and convenience. We owe our unique geography and history for that.
Western Colorado and Eastern Utah comprise a vast area rich in agriculture, mining, oil, natural gas, and perhaps most importantly, natural beauty. Yet the region is blessed with a relatively small population. Grand Junction is separated by hundreds of miles, mountain passes, and desert wastelands from the sprawl, pollution, traffic and big city problems you find in most metro areas.
Yet Grand Junction itself is the largest community in the entire Western Colorado and Eastern Utah area. This makes Grand Junction the regional center for transportation, services and conveniences, and gives us a richer assortment of all the city essentials you need, without most of the city complications you'd like to avoid. (Find more information at the City of Grand Junction Web site as well.)
Grand Junction is surrounded by mountains and plateaus. Enclosing the valley is the bookcliffs, colorado national monument and to the east, the Grand Mesa. Further East are Colorado's famous Rocky Mountains. To learn more about our mountain ranges click here, Colorado mountains