Colorado Lodging

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From the eastern plains westward through the highest Rockies, Colorado's terrain is diverse, fascinating, and spectacularly beautiful. The highest state in the Union, with an average elevation of 6,800 feet and with 53 peaks above 14,000 feet, Colorado attracts sports enthusiasts and vacationers as well as high-technology research and business.

When gold was discovered near present-day Denver in 1858, an avalanche of settlers poured into the state; when silver was discovered soon afterward, a new flood came. Mining camps, usually crude tent cities clinging to the rugged slopes of the Rockies, contributed to Colorado's colorful, robust history. Some of these mines still operate, but most of the early mining camps are ghost towns today. Thousands of newcomers arrive yearly, drawn to Colorado's Rockies by the skiing, hunting, fishing, and magnificent scenery.

Throughout the state there are deep gorges, rainbow-colored canyons, mysterious mesas, and other strange and beautiful landmass variations carved by ancient glaciers and eons of erosion by wind, rain, and water. Great mountains of shifting sand lie trapped by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Great Sand Dunes National Monument; fossils 140 million years old lie in the quarries of Dinosaur National Monument.

Colorado produces more tin, molybdenum, uranium, granite, sandstone, and basalt than any other state. The mountain area also ranks high in production of coal, gold, and silver; the state as a whole has vast deposits of brick clay and oil. Its extensively irrigated plateaus and plains are good grazing lands for stock and rich producers of potatoes, wheat, corn, sugar beets, cauliflower, fruit, and flowers.

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Alamosa Arrowhead Aspen Aurora Avon Bachelor Gulch Beaver Creek Boulder Breckenridge Brighton Broomfield Brush Buena Vista Burlington Byers Calhan Canon City Carbondale

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Fort Collins Fort Morgan Fountain Frisco Fruita Georgetown Glendale Glenwood Springs Golden Granby Grand Junction Greeley Greenwood Village Gunnison Henderson Highlands Ranch Keystone

La Junta Lakewood Lamar Leadville Limon Littleton Lone Tree Longmont Louisville Loveland Manitou Springs Montrose Mount Crested Butte New Castle Pagosa Springs Parachute Parker

Pueblo West Pueblo Rifle Salida Silverthorne Snowmass Village Steamboat Springs Sterling Telluride Thornton Trinidad Vail Walsenburg Wellington Westminster Wheat Ridge Windsor Winter Park

Spaniards penetrated the area by the mid-1500s. American exploration of the area first took place in 1806, three years after a good portion of the region became American property through the Louisiana Purchase. The leader of the party was Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, for whom Pikes Peak is named. Pike pronounced the 14,110-foot mountain unclimbable. Today, one may drive to the top on a good gravel highway (first 5 miles paved). Colorado became a territory in 1861 and earned its Centennial State nickname by becoming a state in 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Water-related activities, hiking, riding, various other sports, picnicking, and visitor centers, as well as camping, are available in many of Colorado's state parks. Interpretive and watchable wildlife programs are available as well. A parks pass is required, good for driver and passengers; annual pass, $50; one-day pass, $3-$6 per car. Passes are available at self-service dispensers at all state parks and park offices. Camping is available in most parks.

Nonresident fishing licenses: annual $40.25; five-day, $18.25; one-day, $5.25; additional one-day stamp, $5; second-rod stamp, $4. Many varieties of trout can be found in Colorado: rainbow and brown in most streams, lakes, and western Colorado River, brook in all mountain streams, and cutthroat in most mountain lakes. Mackinaw can be found in many lakes and reservoirs. Kokanee salmon are also found in many reservoirs. Nonresident hunting licenses: elk, $250.25; deer, $150.25; small game, $40.25.

Most of Colorado falls in a semiarid climate zone. Springs are short; summers are dry. Winters are surprisingly mild along the Front Range, but annual snowfall in the mountains often exceeds 20 feet.