FUN IN COLORADO

State Fish
Greenback Cutthroat Trout

State Flower
White & Lavender Columbine
 
State Fossil
Stegosaurus

State Insect
Hairstreak Butterfly

State Song
"Where the Columbines
Grow," A.J. Fynn and“Rocky Mountain High,” John Denver

State Tree
Colorado Blue Spruce

1. Colorado means “colored red” and is known as the “Centennial State.”
2. Colorado's southwest corner borders Arizona, New Mexico and Utah the only place in America where the corners of four states meet.
3. Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful” after being inspired by the view from Pikes Peak.
4. The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly 1 mile high above sea level.
5. The LoDo region of Denver stands for Lower Downtown.
6. Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest continuous street in America.
7. Colorado has more microbreweries per capita than any other state.
8. The Colorado Rockies play at the 50,000 seat Coors Field, located in downtown Denver.
9. Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast.
10. The Dwight Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel between Clear Creek & Summit counties is the highest auto tunnel in the world. Bored at an elevation of 11,000 feet under the Continental Divide it is 8,960 feet long and the average daily traffic exceeds 26,000 vehicles.
11. Colorado has 222 state wildlife areas.
12. Abundant nesting and migrating birds and other native animals provide a "world-class" watchable wildlife experience. Bald eagles and other raptors, sandhill cranes, shore birds and water birds can be seen seasonally at San Luis Lakes near Alamosa.
13. Denver has the largest city park system in the nation with 205 parks in City limits and 20,000 Acres of parks in the nearby mountains.
14. The longest set of dinosaur tracks discovered to date is in Picketwire Canyon near La Junta in southeastern Colorado.  Some scientists believe the footprints reveal these dinosaurs were hearding animals.
15. Trail Ridge road, the highest continuous U.S. highway, leaves Rocky Mountain National Park on the east and soars to 12,183 feet as it crosses the Contential Divide to the Western Slope
16. A golf ball flies on average ten percent farther in Colorado than other states because of the altitude.  it flies even farther at higher altitudes (above 7,000 feet).
17. Every year Denver host the worlds largest Rodeo, the Western Stock show.
18. The World's First Rodeo was held on July 4th, 1869 in Deer Trail.
19. Greeley  is home to the internally-acclaimed Greeley Independence Stampede, which dates back to 1800s and features national rodeo event, live music performances from national headliners, carnivals and more.
20. John Henry "Doc" Holliday's brief and tumultuous existence led him to Glenwood Springs where he succumbed to tuberculosis and died at the Hotel Glenwood on November 8, 1887.
21. Colorado's first and oldest military post, Fort Garland was established in 1858 and commanded by the legendary frontiersman Kit Carson.
22. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument near Cripple Creek is a lesson in history set in the one-time shadow of the Guffey Volcano. The volcano erupted millions of years ago, creating fossils and leaving the valley filled with petrified trees.
23. The oldest existing Colorado town, San Luis (in southern central Colorado) was founded in 1851.
24. The tallest sand dune in America is in Great Sand Dunes National Monument outside of Alamosa. This bizarre 46,000-acre landscape of 700-foot sand peaks was the creation of ocean waters and wind more than one million years ago.
25. Boulder is home to herbal tea maker Celestial Seasonings, located on Sleeptime Drive, where factory tours and tea tastings are the norm.
26. Rocky Ford has been dubbed the "melon capital of the world."
27. The Yampa River below the northwest town of Craig holds northern pike in the 20-pound range, while the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan rivers are prime spots for trout fishing.
28. Around 500 A.D., a basketmaker culture developed in south-western Colorado.  Known as Ancestral Puebloans this native tribe formed and built villages in rock canyons.  Today parts of their intricate structures still stand at Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, which was the first national park created soley to preserve the work of humans.
29. Mesa Verde features an elaborate four-story city carved in the cliffs by the Ancestral Pueblo people between 600 and 1300 A.D. The mystery surrounding this ancient cultural landmark is the sudden disappearance of the thousands of inhabitants who created the more than 4,000 identified structures.
30. The Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington dates back to 1905, making it the oldest wooden merry-go-round in the United States. It is the only wooden carousel in America still with its original paint.
31. The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has been in continuous operation since 1881 and has appeared in more than a dozen movies including How the West Was Won (1963) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
32. The highest suspension bridge in the world is over the Royal Gorge near Canon City. The Royal Gorge Bridge spans the Arkansas River at a height of 1,053 feet.
33. The world's largest natural hot springs pool located in Glenwood Springs. The two-block long pool is across the street from the historic Hotel Colorado, a favorite stop of former president Teddy Roosevelt.
34. Built in 1867 by Seth Lake, the Astor House in Golden was the first stone hotel built west of the Mississippi River. 

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