10,282 acres
Description
Grand Hogback is a geological treasure box, crowned by a series of peaks ranging in elevation from 9,196-foot Monument Peak to an unnamed 7,710-foot prominence. Rifle Arch, a thick span of Mesa Verde sandstone, frames a cliff face pocked by honeycomb weathering. To the left of the arch, fins of stones stand out from the base of the cliff, as if calving into the pinyon-juniper pygmy forest below. The view west looks out over mixed pinyon-juniper woodland that gives way to semi-desert shrubland as the elevation declines to the drapery-like escarpment of the Roan Plateau.
