Grand Hogback

The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long,[2] curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County.

[3] The hogback is significant because it marks part of the boundary between the Colorado Plateau to the west and the Southern Rocky Mountains to the east.

The hogback appears as a series of serrated ridges and is easily discernable from Google Maps and other aerial views.

A monocline, the Grand Hogback is part of the Mesaverde Formation.

The ridge formed towards the end of the Laramide orogeny during the middle to late Eocene.

The Grand Hogback Monocline defines the eastern limit of the Uinta - Piceance Basin