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The South Platte River in Platte Canyon, Colorado South Platte River in Denver, Colorado Kayakers in Eleven Mile Canyon. The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River. Flowing through the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska, it is itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest ...
The greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii stomias) is the easternmost subspecies of cutthroat trout.The greenback cutthroat, once widespread in the Arkansas and South Platte River drainages of Eastern Colorado and Southeast Wyoming, today occupies less than 1% of its historical range.
The byway follows the historic trails used during westward expansion. The route, which includes County Road 28 (CR 28) and U.S. Highway 138 (US 138), connects Ovid and Julesburg and encircles the South Platte River. It was designated a Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway in 1991. [3]
Shawnee is situated along the North Fork South Platte River, west of Bailey on U.S. Route 285.. The historical district of Shawnee consists of Time Capsule Framing & Art, Shawnee Mountain Gallery, a post office, the Shawnee Cemetery, and surrounding houses, on the hillside south of the highway overlooking the river valley.
The South Platte River Bridge, in South Park near Lake George, Colorado, was built in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [1] It is a 89 feet (27 m) bridge consisting of two 40 feet (12 m) deck girder spans. It was built in 1920 and then carried State Highway 8 over the South Platte River.
Bear Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River in central Colorado in the United States. It begins as a small creek up in the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness in Summit Lake and makes its way through Evergreen, CO, Kittredge, CO, Idledale, CO and Morrison, CO before entering Bear Creek Lake Park, managed by the City of Lakewood, Colorado.
Deckers is an unincorporated community along the South Platte River in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. Stephen Decker built a general store here in the 1890s. He later added a saloon and called the settlement "Daffodil." The presence of natural springs led him to establish Deckers Mineral Springs and Resort in the popular region for ...
After building a temporary trading post called Fort Convenience on the South Platte River and Clear Creek in 1834, [4] Vasquez established Fort Vacquez with Sublette. The present day Fort Vasquez located, literally, on Highway 85, next to Platteville, Colorado is a reconstruction of the adobe trading post established by the trappers Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette.