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Interstate 70

Added by yongli on 11/19/2015 - 16:17, last changed on 04/17/2020 - 08:37

I-70 near Genesee Park

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Interstate Highway 70 spans 2,100 miles across the United States, crossing the entire state of Colorado. The eastern end of the highway lies west of Baltimore, Maryland. From there it bisects the country until it reaches Cove Fort in Central Utah, where it merges into Interstate 15. In Colorado, I-...

Water Law

Added by yongli on 11/16/2015 - 14:26, last changed on 08/06/2020 - 10:38
Known collectively as “The Colorado Doctrine,” the state’s water laws arose primarily from the practice of farmers diverting water from streams through ditches onto irrigable land to grow food for homesteading families, miners, and growing towns. Territorial Law In 1861 the Colorado Territorial...

Royal Gorge

Added by yongli on 11/10/2015 - 12:27, last changed on 01/13/2021 - 09:02
The Royal Gorge is a spectacular canyon along the Arkansas River near Cañon City in south-central Colorado. With a narrowest width of just 30 feet at the bottom of the canyon and a depth exceeding 1,200 feet in some places, the nearly ten-mile-long canyon is considered a world wonder of geology ...

Barlow and Sanderson Stagecoach

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 10:24, last changed on 03/18/2020 - 12:23
The Barlow and Sanderson stagecoach in Monte Vista is a mud wagon like those that operated in the 1870s and 1880s along Barlow and Sanderson lines in the San Luis Valley . The only regional example of its type, the stagecoach was acquired by the Monte Vista Commercial Club and donated in 1959 to...

Vision Quest

Added by yongli on 11/02/2015 - 16:36, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
The vision quest is a rite of passage practiced by Native American tribes of the Plains and Great Basin groups such as the Eastern Shoshone . Vision quests are not well documented for the Ute Native Americans, although a few shamans might have performed the ritual. Archaeologists and...

Mountain Pine Beetle

Added by yongli on 10/30/2015 - 13:46, last changed on 09/11/2020 - 13:06
Forests across Colorado's Rocky Mountains look very different today than they did twenty years ago: millions of trees have been killed by mountain pine beetles ( Dendroctonus ponderosae ). The mountain pine beetle is a native insect that is roughly the size of a grain of rice, but large populations...

Rock Art of Colorado

Added by yongli on 10/29/2015 - 14:34, last changed on 10/31/2019 - 11:21
Colorado is home to a rich variety of prehistoric and historic art carved on cliff sides and boulders. Most rock art is found in river basins. The mountain areas that cut a wide vertical swath through the state are relatively devoid of rock art. There are the two types of rock art: pecked art,...

Sweat Lodge

Added by yongli on 10/29/2015 - 14:26, last changed on 03/25/2019 - 01:07
Sweat lodges are structures built to contain steam, and they play an important role in the spiritual practices of Colorado’s Native American peoples. The Arapaho , Cheyenne , Navajo , Shoshone, and Ute are historic Native American groups in Colorado who use sweat lodges as a method for cleansing...

Water in Colorado

Added by yongli on 10/22/2015 - 16:35, last changed on 05/04/2020 - 08:53
Water has profoundly shaped Colorado’s past and will play a vital role in its future. The resource is essential to the state’s agriculture, cities, industries, energy supply, and environment. Furthermore, eighteen other states and parts of Mexico rely on waters from the mountains of Colorado, known...

The City Beautiful Movement in Denver

Added by yongli on 10/22/2015 - 16:06, last changed on 08/02/2020 - 01:07
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the City Beautiful movement sought to create a livable urban environment with healthy and agreeable conditions and an abundance of recreational facilities in the midst of rapidly industrializing cities. Cities throughout Colorado undertook City Beautiful...

State Symbols: An Overview

Added by yongli on 10/21/2015 - 16:40, last changed on 05/10/2020 - 01:07
What good are official symbols and emblems? In the abstract, they associate the state or nation with representative features or desirable traits. Symbols usually emphasize something unique, or at least characteristic, about a particular state. The United States and every individual state possess an...

Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 15:16, last changed on 10/16/2019 - 09:54
The Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway climbs the 8.9 miles to the 14,110-foot summit of Pikes Peak . The railway is the highest in North America and was built as a tourist attraction in the late nineteenth century. Other cog railways can be found on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire and throughout...

Agricultural Extension Service

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 13:57, last changed on 05/04/2020 - 09:23
The agricultural extension service in Colorado (1887–present) links individuals, organizations, and communities with research experts to address agrarian issues. These issues encompass rural problems associated with farming and ranching, as well as urban topics such as cooperative gardens and...

Eisenhower Tunnel

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 12:19, last changed on 12/21/2020 - 10:43
The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel (also known simply as the Eisenhower Tunnel) carries Interstate 70 traffic underneath the Continental Divide . The 1.6-mile-long pair of tunnels, carrying two lanes of traffic east and west, respectively, is seventy miles west of Denver in Summit County and...

Santa Fé Trail

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 11:11, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 12:49
The Santa Fé Trail was an international overland route of both commerce and social interaction, joining the US prairie state of Missouri with the province of México Nuevo, Mexico, through much of the nineteenth century. Though its specific date of origin is unclear, it appears to have been the...

Fourteeners

Added by yongli on 08/20/2015 - 10:30, last changed on 08/10/2020 - 11:56
Colorado is home to fifty-eight of the nation's ninety-six mountain peaks standing at or above 14,000 feet in elevation. Known colloquially as “Fourteeners,” these peaks dominate Colorado’s skyline and shape the way people live and identify with nature in the Rocky Mountain West. Throughout...

Longs Peak

Added by yongli on 07/27/2015 - 15:41, last changed on 09/24/2020 - 01:07
Longs Peak is an icon of the Rocky Mountain landscape. At 14,259 feet, it is one of Colorado’s tallest mountains, the only Fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park . For more than a century, the mountain has inspired adventuresome men and women to test themselves against its bouldered slopes,...

Wonderbound

Added by Greg Vogl on 07/15/2015 - 14:39, last changed on 08/01/2020 - 01:07
Based in Denver , Wonderbound was established in 2002 and has quickly grown into the second-largest professional dance company in Colorado. Originally called Ballet Nouveau Colorado and affiliated with a Broomfield -based dance school of the same name, in 2012–13 the company split with the dance...

Alva B. Adams Tunnel

Added by yongli on 06/12/2015 - 15:35, last changed on 05/07/2020 - 11:06
Beneath the glacier -carved peaks and valleys of Rocky Mountain National Park , below the alpine lakes and rushing streams, a concrete-lined tunnel belies the illusion of a pristine wilderness. In 1944, the two ends of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel were connected with a blast of dynamite, creating the...

Tuberculosis in Colorado

Added by yongli on 04/15/2015 - 14:06, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 12:06
Historians estimate that perhaps as many as one-third of Colorado’s early settlers moved to the state for reasons directly or indirectly associated with health. Most came because they believed the arid mountain climate could cure them of one of the nineteenth-century’s deadliest diseases:...

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