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Sand Creek flows from the Laramie Mountains in Larimer County, Colorado into Albany County, Wyoming where it joins the Laramie River. [ 1 ] The area where Sand Creek crosses the border between Colorado and Wyoming ( 40°59′49″N 105°46′14″W / 40.99694°N 105.77056°W / 40.99694; -105.77056 ) was designated a National Natural ...
2.1 Colorado River watershed. 2.2 Columbia River watershed. 2.3 Great Salt Lake watershed. 3 Alphabetically. 4 See also. 5 External links. ... List of rivers of Wyoming.
The boundary between Maryland and Virginia is the south bank of the Potomac River. This also applies both to the border between Maryland and West Virginia (from Harper's Ferry to the source of the Potomac near the Fairfax Stone) since the latter was at one point part of Virginia, and to the border between Virginia and Washington, D.C., since ...
Colorado River in the Grand Canyon seen from Pima Point, near Hermit's Rest. In Utah, the Colorado flows primarily through the "slickrock" country, which is characterized by its narrow canyons and unique "folds" created by the tilting of sedimentary rock layers along faults. This is one of the most inaccessible regions of the continental United ...
Up in central north Colorado rests North Park (Colorado basin), a valley ringed by 12,000 feet (3,700 m) mountains.The headwaters of the river is essentially all of Jackson County, Colorado whose boundaries are the continental divide on the west and south and the mountain drainage peaks on the east—the north boundary is the state of Wyoming boundary.
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 Colorado River Upper Basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and the Lower Basin, made up of California, Arizona and Nevada, have been quarreling for months over seemingly ...
A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.