A photo dated 1900 captures a group of five African American travelers posing on donkey back, draped in Victorian clothing and donning their large, touristy sun hats in front of Balanced Rock at Garden of the Gods.

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See Delicate Arch, Double Arch, Balanced Rock and Corona Arch once you make it in, seemingly delicate sandstone miracles of erosion.

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