Many outside of Colorado might think the gloriously beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheatre was built in the 1980s and made famous by U2 when they shot their iconic “Sunday Bloody Sunday” video there in 1983 during their War tour.
In truth, the breathtaking setting was once home of dinosaurs and then eons later the Native American tribes of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Peoples.
On the Fourth of July, 1870, Judge Martin Van Buren Luther christened the slanted monoliths at Mt. Morrison, Colorado, near Denver, as The Garden of the Angels.
He also put a curse on anyone who changed the name, but anyone who saw the unique ruddy formation told their friends about the beauty of Red Rocks.
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