All About Colorado - The Centennial State
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Colorado - Rocky Mountain High!
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The "High Country of Colorado"? The Whole State is HIGH! Colorado is the only state in the USA that lies entirely above 3,281 feet (1000 meters) in elevation! And MOUNTAINS? High Ones? Colorado has more than...
Places
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What to do in Denver
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Denver, Colorado is a city filled with culture, sports, outdoor activities, shopping and more. Discover the exciting things to do while visiting or living in Denver. The Colorado Rocky Mountains are just a short driving distance from Denver, so you...
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Bennett Colorado
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Sitting just a few miles east of the edges of the Denver metro area, Bennett remains true to its rural roots. Home to Longhopes Donkey Shelter, this small town is a jewel on the Eastern Colorado plains.
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Ft. Lupton Colorado
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Ft. Lupton is a picturesque town north of Denver. Surrounded by sugar beet fields, the town demonstrates what's best about rural living in Colorado.
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Living in Littleton, Colorado
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Littleton, Colorado is a suburb south of Denver and home to approximately 40,300. Located in Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, Littleton is one of the most delightful places to live in the Denver metro area. Beautiful neighborhoods, award winning sch...
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Brighton Colorado
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Brighton is growing by leaps and bounds! Originally a very small farming community, the town evolved in to a major sugar beet growing and processing hub for the country. Today, the city is modern and vibrant but still in touch with its rural roots.
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Loveland, Colorado
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Loveland, Colorado is a picturesque little town nestled in the beauty of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. It's known as the "Sweetheart City", and for good reason. For the last 62 years, Loveland has helped Cupid by offering a Valentine's Day Re-Mail...
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Ft. Collins, Colorado
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Snuggled up against the northern Colorado front range foothills, the city of Ft. Collins is home to Colorado State University (GO RAMS). This once quiet college town has grown by leaps and bounds in the past two decades with the growth of major emplo...
Outdoor Recreation Paradise
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Rocky Mountain National Park
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I am a traveler. I'm always planning the next trip, even if things don't always fall into place so that I can actually go. Living in the Deep South, a road trip out West always fell into the "planning to go, but never actually going" category; that i...
Colorado News and Information
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The Science of Thunderstorms and How to Keep Children and Pets from being Afraid of Them
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This is about those familiar storms that we experience every Spring. If you are fascinated with, or even scared of, the lightning, rain, and thunder, you may appreciate the information and images of this page. I also provide helpful information and...
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Tornado Alley - Tornadoes In The United States, Videos, Stories, Books and More
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I think tornadoes are absolutely beautiful. I am always the one who ventures out to see them. I love to watch videos, see photos and read about the acts of God that causes them. I have so many wonderful tornado related web pages, videos and other fa...
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Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, TICKS!
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When folks and their pets venture into the meadows and forests of our parks and open areas for recreation they may be returning home with unwanted "guests" -- the Ticks Almost any forested or grassy area in the world will have ticks. Ticks are member...
Symbols
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Rocky Mountain Columbines
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Columbines grow wild and under cultivation all over the world but are perhaps best known as "The Rocky Mountain Columbine", a stunning blue eye-catcher and the state flower of Colorado. Growing up in the Rockies, these gorgeous blooms color my memori...
Colorado Wildlife
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Venomous Snakes - Rattlesnakes, Sidewinders, Cottonmouths, Copperheads
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Growing up in Montana and New Mexico, I had plenty of chances for learning about some of the most dangerous aspects of hiking, camping, and otherwise enjoying the great outdoors in those areas. Most of the time (except when they are molting), the rat...
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Bull Snakes - Gentle Helpers
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Many people may be terrified of snakes, but there's really no need to fear these guys. Bull Snakes (also called Gopher snakes) are docile and do our habitats a great service by keeping down vermin populations. They eat mice, rats, rabbits, and prairi...
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Prairie Dogs of the Plains
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They may be pests in some places, and the prairie dog towns stretching for miles in every direction have just about disappeared from the west, but these furry little critters still entertain and enchant us. Prairie Dogs are part of our heritage in th...
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Great Horned Owl
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The Great Horned Owl is a phenomenal hunter. When it recognizes the sound of prey, it will hop from tree to tree until it pinpoints the source. Then it silently swoops in with its talons wide and pounces on the unsuspecting prey.
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The Western Meadowlark
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The Western Meadowlark has one of the most beautiful and melodious mating calls of all North American birds. They also happen to possess uncomparably beautiful breast plumage in shades of sunshine that only nature could create. I look forward to the...
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Golden Eagle
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The Golden Eagle is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. They prefer the open country rather than forests and can be spotted in desert grasslands, and above the timberline.
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Burrowing Owl
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The Burrowing Owls are aptly named. They live underground in burrows. Rather than dig their own, they let the ground squirrels and prairie dogs do the work, and then evict them.
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The Bald Eagle
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The Bald Eagle is the only eagle unique to North America. Over the last few years the population of Bald Eagles has made a comeback. It was removed from the Federal List of Endangered Species on June 28, 2007.
Root For The Home Teams!
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Colorado Avalanche - NHL Hockey
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Colorado Avalanche NHL Hockey - Budaj and Raycroft not the same as Patrick Roy. All the rest of the cast is here - Sakic, some great young players, and a great mix of young and old, good coaching and leadership. Colorado Avalanche tickets, jerseys, c...
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Denver Broncos - NFL Football
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Denver Broncos NFL Tickets, Souvenirs, Jerseys, Caps, Memorabilia, Merchandise. Last year, Denver suffered their first losing record since 1999 at 7-9. Denver Broncos At Mile High Stadium - Always A Threat in the NFL!
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Colorado Rockies - MLB Baseball
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Colorado Rockies - Still the easiest location to hit a home run in MLB Baseball - Coors Field. In an exciting 14 inning tiebreaker game, the Rockies made the playoffs! Possibly the most improbable run to the World Series EVER! The Colorado Rockies we...
Colorado Spirituality and Faith
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Tibetan Bowls Meditation Concerts
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Sound Therapy Meditations with Tibetan Bowls You will find hearing the Tibetan Bowls to be a profoundly spiritual experience. This beautiful work that is being re-discovered is that of "at-TUNE-ment with Creation." The Tibetan Bowls harmonize, uplif...
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St. Francis Xavier Cabrini
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St. Francis X. Cabrini, more popularly called Mother Cabrini, was the first citizen of the United States to be declared a Saint (canonized) by the Roman Catholic Church. She worked for a time in the mountains near Golden, Colorado where she founded a...
Non-Profits In Colorado
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The Simple Pleasures of Living with Cats
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Have you ever come home from a rough day at work to find a happy, frisky, bundle of fur ready to melt your stress by making you giggle at his or her kittenish antics? Or maybe you have a feline friend who always seems to know the appropriate time to...
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The Wild Animal Sanctuary
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Saving One Animal May Not Change The World But Surely, For That One Animal... The World Will Change Forever! The Wild Animal Sanctuary provides a safe haven for wild animals rescued from private owners, abusive situations, and others who would other...
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Longhopes Donkey Rescue
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Our mission is to rescue, shelter, rehabilitate and find permanent homes for donkeys that would otherwise be destroyed for meat consumption overseas. These animals are often shipped in horrific conditions to processors outside of the US - many die fr...
Our History
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Alfred Packer - The Colorado Cannibal
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Only three people have ever been convicted and imprisoned in the United States for the crime of cannibalism. The first, and most famous, was Alfred Packer. In January of 1864, six men left to scout for mining prospects despite being warned that the w...
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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Molly Brown was a poor girl from an abolitionist family, adventurous seeker of her fortune in a rough and tumble silver boomtown, early activist for women's rights, tireless crusader for the less fortunate, socialite, actress, Titanic survivor..........
Arts and Entertainment
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Live Theatre (or Theater) in Colorado
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Information about what's happening on stage in Colorado. Links to the latest reviews, openings, closings, company websites, who's who and more. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a link list of Colorado theater companies. There are so many companie...
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Music On The Rocks
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Red Rocks is the world's premier outdoor concert venue. The natural acoustic quality and gorgeous setting is unparalleled. The site of U2's famous "Under A Blood Red Sky" concert, seeing a concert "On The Rocks" is a dream for many a music fan while...
Colorado Realtors
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Jake Marsh - Your Denver Realtor
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Welcome to our lens! Our lens is about Denver real estate and information, we hope you find this lens useful as a resource of information news and events that are happening up in the "Mile High" city. Within the last year I have had the pleasure of...
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Denver Colorado Real Estate
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My name is Carol Freyer-Bayer, and while I am originally from Louisiana, I have lived in Colorado since 1996. I graduated from Rhodes College with a degree in Economics, and have been working in the real estate industry since the year 2000. In 2004,...
What Comes From Colorado??
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B is for Beets
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Grown primarily for livestock food and sugar processing, only a small percentage of beets make it to the dinner table. Nevertheless, beets are enjoying a comeback! Easy to grow, they're completely edible from top to bottom, and packed with nutri...
The Newest Group Lenses
The Hairy Woodpecker, Cooper's Hawk, I Work For An Awesome Company, If you are planning a vacation to Colorado, you have to read this., The Simple Pleasures of Living with Cats
Love Colorado?
Aaron-M wrote...
I miss Colorado! The rockies, the snow the weather. California may have nice weather all year but it doesn't seem to have seasons! I miss my home state!!
EclecticWAHM wrote...
Colorado is awesome! Thanks for creating this great group!
Famous and Favorite Books
Colorado Atlas and Gazetteer, Eighth Edition
EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about a State! more...0 points
1001 Colorado Place Names by Maxine Benson
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