Garden of the Gods reminds me a mini-Arches. But aside from the rock being so red, there isn't much similarity. The rock here is Pikes Peak granite, which during the Cretaceous was pushed up and deformed during the Laramide Orogeny, a mountain building event. Erosion then formed the rocks into how they can be seen today.
Of course, there are other layers of rock above that granite that are eroding off the top. And those rocks, at least a smaller part of them, produced a small amount of fossils from a new species of dinosaur, called Theiophytalia. Its some type of hadrosaur. It figures that I managed to run into the one fossil in a place.
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