Curecanti Needle

Curecanti Needle,
Curecanti National Recreation Area (National Park Service)
The Curecanti Needle photographed ca. 1884.
Highest point
Elevation	7,739 ft (2,359 m)[1]
Prominence	700 ft (210 m)
Coordinates	38°26′56″N 107°24′51″W / 38.44889°N 107.41417°W / 38.44889; -107.41417
Geography
Location	Morrow Point Reservoir, Gunnison River, Gunnison County, Colorado, US
Topo map	Curecanti Needle MRC: 38107D4 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Topo Series:7.5´ Map Scale:1:24,000

The Curecanti Needle is a 700-ft granite spire located on the Gunnison River in western Colorado. A notable landmark to generations of natives and pioneers, the Needle is located on the southern bank of Morrow Point Reservoir, an impoundment of the Gunnison river between Gunnison and Montrose, Colorado. Used for many years as an advertising symbol for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, whose narrow-gauge railway famously ran along the northern bank of the river and passed near the Needle, the spire is today part of the Curecanti National Recreation Area, a National Park Service facility that encompasses three impoundments of the Gunnison river, including Morrow Point Reservoir.