Looking Out Week 10

The Red Rocks Amphitheater takes advantage of the natural environment and exploits some of the acoustic advantages that environment can provide. It is part of the Red Rocks park that is located at the border between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. It was opened in 1941.

The park likes to say that nature is the architect. The theater is geologically formed. Two very large sandstone monoliths named Ship Rock and Creation Rock provide the open air theater with proper acoustic quality for any concert or function. The rocks also offer a geologic history lesson showing how the earth has formed over the past 250 million years. The use of this longevity that only nature can provide makes this place very unique.