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The Town of Fraser is a Statutory Town located in Grand County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 1,400 at the 2020 United States Census, a +14.38% increase since the 2010 United States Census. [4] The town is situated in Middle Park in the valley of the Fraser River along U.S. Highway 40.
The Fraser River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 32.5 miles (52.3 km) long, [2] in north central Colorado in the United States.It drains a large portion of the Middle Park basin in Grand County in the Rocky Mountains west of Boulder and southwest of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The creek rises near Saint Louis Peak in the Arapaho National Forest.From there, it flows generally north northeastward, passing through the Fraser Experimental Forest and then Fraser itself until it reaches its confluence with the Fraser River on the east side of Highway 40 just south of Grand County Road 8 in Fraser.
The Fraser Experimental Forest is an outdoor research laboratory to study timber, water, wildlife management, and their integration in the high elevation subalpine coniferous forests. The experimental forest was established in 1937, and encompasses 9,328 hectares (36.02 sq mi).
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The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado
This is a list of drainage basins in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado encompasses the headwaters of several important rivers. The state is divided into two major hydrographic regions by the Continental Divide of the Americas .
Byers Peak, elevation 12,799 ft (3,901 m), is a mountain in Grand County, Colorado southwest of Fraser, Colorado. The mountain is part of the Byers Peak Wilderness and is the peak for which the wilderness area is named. Byers Peak is easily seen from Fraser and serves as an easily-identifiable landmark. [5]