Battlement Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) and make known office in and governed by Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a allowance of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Battlement Mesa declare office has the ZIP Codes 81635 and 81636 (for publish office boxes). At the United States Census 2010, the population of the Battlement Mesa CDP was 4,471, while the population of the 81635 ZIP Code Tabulation Area was 5,957 including the Town of Parachute. The Battlement Mesa Metropolitan District provides services.

The community, which bills itself as a “covenant-controlled community”, is primarily a charity of contiguous subdivisions developed in the innovative decades of the 20th century, catering to families and retirees. It is located upon the flank of a hill upon the south side of the Colorado River, across from the older town of Parachute. The two communities together are known as “Parachute-Battlement Mesa”. The town takes its broadcast from Battlement Mesa, an 11,000-foot-high (3,400 m) basalt-topped mesa that sits to the south of the town.

The community was first developed by an oil company as a domicile for its workers in the expectation that the rising price of oil would make shale oil descent economically viable. When adjusted oil prices fell, the housing estate was left as a stranded asset, and the oil company marketed it to retirees in conjunction like a real estate firm.

The Battlement Mesa Schoolhouse, located at 7201 300 Road, is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. The rear part of the building was built in 1897 with rock from a local quarry. The belly portion was bonus in 1907, also using stone from the same quarry. By the late 1940s, the building was no longer used as a schoolhouse but was used for community gatherings and events. However, the local population declined, and the schoolhouse fell into disuse and was looted and vandalized. In 2003, the State Historical Fund awarded a consent to The Grand Valley Historical Society to remodel the learned building.