"As you approach from the south east the sage-covered landscape billows in a series of rolling hills resembling pillows. As one wanders through the landscape the sent of sage cleanses the soul." Kurt Kunkle, Denver

Pillows of Sagebrush photo © CEC

The Sagebrush Pillows CWP unit is located five miles northwest of Gateway along the Colorado-Utah state line and it contiguous to Utah’s 40,589 acre Beaver Creek CWP. Climb to the top of the red rock cliffs along castellated canyon rims and you will see how Sagebrush Pillows was named. In the vast plain below, two large expanses of sagebrush are divided by a drainage. These bisected sagebrush meadows appear as two large pillows in an undulating, semi-desert landscape of sage shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodlands.

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To learn more about this special wild place please visit the Colorado’s Canyon Country Wilderness Proposal web site.