It's the Chapel on the Rock, located a handful of miles south of Rocky Mountain National Park. If you like your churches to be inspirational, this is your place.
The facility was completed in 1936 after several years of fundraising and construction. The building's highlight came in 1993, when Pope John Paul II visited on his trip to Colorado. He blessed the building and took a walk in the area.
A nearby retreat center was burned up in a 2011 fire, and the surrounding area was wiped out, more or less, by a flood and landslide in 2013. Luckily, the chapel is fine, and a fundraising effort to construct a visitors' center is underway.
We had never heard of this before driving by it one day. It's a good idea to stop and look around.
The full tour:
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