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All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
The Colorado Rockies forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the United States. This ecoregion is located in the highest ranges of the Rocky Mountains , in central and western Colorado , northern New Mexico and southeastern Wyoming , and experiences a dry continental climate.
The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Alpine Tunnel, first tunnel over Continental Divide in Colorado, highest railroad tunnel and at 1,772 ft (540 m) longest narrow-gauge tunnel in North America. Tunnel abandoned since 1910, impassable, unpaved road on approaches, reconstructed telegraph office with station platform near southern (wester
Denver, as well as other cities along the High Plains and foothills of the Colorado Rockies, tend to get a large portion of their annual snowfall during the autumn and spring, rather than the ...
Satellite photograph of the Southern Rocky Mountains of the United States.. The Southern Rocky Mountains are a major subregion of the Rocky Mountains of North America located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, the central and western portions of Colorado, the northern portion of New Mexico, and extreme eastern portions of Utah.
The village of Allenspark is situated on part of the original George Mack homestead, site of Crystal Springs, an excellent water source. After Mack's homestead patent was granted on January 7, 1895, [ 8 ] Mack sold some of the land to the Allens Park Land and Townsite Co. on May 9, 1896.