However, the kids in that show live in suburbs with paved roads and manicured hedges in their yards. Yes, this is the same geographic province as portrayed in the TV show, “South Park”.
Look: Geologic Cross-section of South Park Basin, (Peter Barkmann, Colorado Geologic Survey, 2018)Ĭolorado has two other big basin parks to the north: Middle Park in Grand County and North Park in Jackson County. This geologic structure is called a graben. As the mountains rise, the land in between is forming a basin, like a hammock.
It’s a pull-apart basin, meaning the mountain ranges on either side are popping up like floating blocks of ice cubes on top of the Earth’s hot mantle below. Photo: Michele White Geography of South Park, Colorado The denizens of South Park are artist types with interesting lifestyles: ranchers, survivalists, shop owners, retired folk, and other miscellaneous humans of the modern species. Not teeming with population, Park County in this vicinity retains a unique rustic character left over from historic times. The basin is a wide-open flat plain with an astounding view of peaks in all directions. It’s an expansive regional full of many colorful and authentic small mountain towns. South Park Colorado is a high alpine basin at 9,000+ feet elevation, nestled between a ring of tall mountain ranges.
