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The name, Cache la Poudre (French for 'Hide the Powder'), [5] is a corruption of the original Cache à la Poudre, [6] or "cache of powder". It refers to an incident in the 1820s when French trappers, caught by a snowstorm, were forced to bury part of their gunpowder along the banks of the river.
La Poudre Pass (elevation 10,184 ft (3,104 m)), a high mountain pass, is located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States.. The pass straddles the Continental Divide, and separates the headwaters of La Poudre Pass Creek, which joins the Cache la Poudre River and eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico, from the headwaters of the Colorado River, which drains into the ...
Spring Creek is a 12.7-mile-long (20.4 km) [2] tributary of the Cache La Poudre River in the state of Colorado in the United States.. Spring Creek begins north of Horsetooth Mountain within Horsetooth Mountain Park just west of Fort Collins, Colorado, and flows into Horsetooth Reservoir.
The Cache La Poudre River Corridor National Heritage Area extends along the flood plain of the Cache La Poudre River in Colorado, US.It is a federally designated National Heritage Area, [1] extending for 45 miles (72 km) from Larimer County in the west where the river emerges from the Rocky Mountains, and ends near Greeley, Colorado, just before its confluence with the South Platte River.
The lake is located within Rocky Mountain National Park, generally in La Poudre Pass, just south of the Continental Divide. The lake lies just southeast of La Poudre Pass Creek. It can be reached on foot via the La Poudre Pass trail. [1] La Poudre Pass Lake drains to the south as the source of the Colorado River. [1]
The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
The South Fork Cache la Poudre River is a 27.0-mile-long (43.5 km) [2] tributary of the Cache la Poudre River in Larimer County, Colorado. The river's source is in the Mummy Range of Rocky Mountain National Park .
The reservoir is owned by the Water Supply and Storage Company, based in Fort Collins. The city of Thornton owns a large proportion of the company's stock. [5] Water from the reservoir makes its way to the Cache la Poudre River. It then flows down through Poudre Canyon to Colorado's Eastern Plains, where it is distributed.