Jun 11, 2026
On Friday, May 15th, 40 high school students from Des Moines, New Mexico visited Browns Canyon National Monument for a half day field trip. The students and teachers hiked downstream from Hecla Junction along the Arkansas River, stopping to view the rugged scenery of...
Apr 9, 2026
Friends of Browns Canyon April Newsletter Spring has Sprung. Our beautiful landscape is greening up, and we’ve been seeing exquisite new images of earth captured from space with the flight of Artemis, making this the perfect moment in time to contemplate and...
Jan 25, 2026
FRIENDS OF BROWNS CANYON 2025 RECAP A NOTE FROM THE BOARD We probably don’t need to tell you that it’s been a challenging year for public lands. National Monuments have been in the crosshairs for months. Our beloved Browns Canyon National Monument has been cited as a...
Jan 2, 2025
Browns Canyon National Monument has garnered widespread attention following DarkSky International’s designation of the Monument as a Dark Sky Park. Regional radio – Heart of the Rockies Radio stations The Peak, Hippie Radio, The Valley and Eagle Country – were...
Dec 18, 2024
Browns Canyon National Monument has been certified as a Dark Sky Park by DarkSky International, following more than two years of citizen science and advocacy work led by Friends of Browns Canyon to demonstrate that the Monument meets the stringent requirements...
