Colorado Photo of the Month
Check back each month to see our favorite nature photos from Colorado!
This page was updated on December 1, 2020.

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October 2020
A pair of elk in Telluride Valley, southwesetern Colorado.
© Kim Baker

September 2020
The view from Shrine Ridge, Colorado, looking west toward Holy Cross Wilderness in the distance.
© Jeanne Frasse
October 2020
A pair of elk in Telluride Valley, southwesetern Colorado.
© Kim Baker
September 2020
The view from Shrine Ridge, Colorado, looking west toward Holy Cross Wilderness in the distance.
© Jeanne Frasse

August 2020
A Colorado sunset at JE Canyon Ranch.
© JJ Autry/TNC

July 2020
Summer wildflowers in the Colorado mountains.
© Audrey Wolk/TNC
August 2020
A Colorado sunset at JE Canyon Ranch.
© JJ Autry/TNC
July 2020
Summer wildflowers in the Colorado mountains.
© Audrey Wolk/TNC

June 2020
A barber pole grasshopper perches on a TNC staff member’s finger at JE Canyon preserve in Southeast Colorado.
© Gustavo Lozada/TNC

May 2020
Flowers budding on a spring day in Boulder, Colorado.
© Haley Pope/TNC
June 2020
A barber pole grasshopper perches on a TNC staff member’s finger at JE Canyon preserve in Southeast Colorado.
© Gustavo Lozada/TNC
May 2020
Flowers budding on a spring day in Boulder, Colorado.
© Haley Pope/TNC

April 2020
Colorado's peak wild flower season near Crested Butte, Colorado.
© Ethan Herrold/TNC Photo Contest 2019

March 2020
During the autumn rut, a bighorn sheep ram charges up through the rabbitbrush covered in snow from an early snowstorm. Location: Canyon in Colorado.
© Shane Morrison/TNC Photo Contest 2019
April 2020
Colorado's peak wild flower season near Crested Butte, Colorado.
© Ethan Herrold/TNC Photo Contest 2019
March 2020
During the autumn rut, a bighorn sheep ram charges up through the rabbitbrush covered in snow from an early snowstorm. Location: Canyon in Colorado.
© Shane Morrison/TNC Photo Contest 2019

February 2020
A snowshoe hare is camouflaged in a wooded, snowy setting in Colorado.
© Christopher Brown

January 2020
A mule deer surveys the landscape, body dusted with snow. Countless adaptations, shaped through evolution, allow this animal to withstand the brutal cold of a Colorado winter.
© Carmen Cromer/TNC Photo Contest 2019
February 2020
A snowshoe hare is camouflaged in a wooded, snowy setting in Colorado.
© Christopher Brown
January 2020
A mule deer surveys the landscape, body dusted with snow. Countless adaptations, shaped through evolution, allow this animal to withstand the brutal cold of a Colorado winter.
© Carmen Cromer/TNC Photo Contest 2019

December 2019
A bullocks oriole perches on a tree branch in the middle of winter at Carpenter Ranch in Northwest, CO.
© Nancy Merrill

November 2019
Cottonwoods display their rich golden autumn color on the James Ranch near Durango, Colorado in the Animas River Valley.
© Erika Nortemann/TNC
December 2019
A bullocks oriole perches on a tree branch in the middle of winter at Carpenter Ranch in Northwest, CO.
© Nancy Merrill
November 2019
Cottonwoods display their rich golden autumn color on the James Ranch near Durango, Colorado in the Animas River Valley.
© Erika Nortemann/TNC

October 2019
This grove of trees in Owl Creek just outside the town of Aspen, Colorado were putting on an amazing show in October.
© Robert Ross/TNC Photo Contest 2019

September 2019
Aspen tree trunks outside Telluride, CO
© Lauryn Wachs/TNC
October 2019
This grove of trees in Owl Creek just outside the town of Aspen, Colorado were putting on an amazing show in October.
© Robert Ross/TNC Photo Contest 2019
September 2019
Aspen tree trunks outside Telluride, CO
© Lauryn Wachs/TNC
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