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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.
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.
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. [3] It begins at Spring Canyon Dam, and flows into Horsetooth Reservoir, and through Fort Collins. [4]
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 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 North Fork Cache la Poudre River (locally called the North Fork) is a tributary of the Cache la Poudre River, approximately 59.2 miles (95.3 km) long, [2] in north central Colorado in the United States. It drains a mountainous area of north central Larimer County northwest of Fort Collins on the western side of the Laramie Foothills.
In May 2003 a 100 ft (30 m) section of the ditch breached about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of La Poudre Pass, causing the water to cascade down the slopes and into the Colorado River. The flood left a visible scar on the mountainside: 20,000 trees were downed and 47,600 cubic yards of debris ended up in the Lulu Creek and the headwaters of the ...
The South Fork South Platte River in the South Park National Heritage Area. The three National Heritage Areas in Colorado are: Cache La Poudre River Corridor National Heritage Area; Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area; South Park National Heritage Area