Terra Tower

[3] This 350-foot-high tower is situated on the Redlands escarpment, approximately seven miles west of the community of Grand Junction.

Topographic relief is significant as it rises 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the Tiara Rado Golf Course in approximately one-half mile.

The first ascent of the summit was made in 1979 by Harvey Carter and Tom Merrill via the class 5.11 route, Way Bazaar.

This tower is the remnant of a differentially eroded fin composed primarily of cliff-forming Wingate Sandstone, which consists of wind-borne, cross-bedded quartzose sandstones deposited as ancient sand dunes approximately 200 million years ago in the Late Triassic.

[4] Precipitation runoff from this geographical feature drains to the Colorado River, approximately two miles to the northeast.