Travelers Guide to Colorado This is a travelers guide to the state of Colorado. Colorado is a unique and interesting place to visit. If the reader would want to go to Colorado, this is the report to read. This report has both statistics and fun things to go and do. Colorado is state of mountains and hills. Colorado is the highest of the states elevation at over 14,000 feet high. Many people visit Colorado each year. Many of the people that visit here are outdoor enthusiasts, skiers, and people just wanting to go on a get away vacation. This state offers numerous things to go, see, and do. For the outdoor enthusiasts, Colorado has: many mountains to hike on, trails to walk on, …show more content…
There are to units that make up this "marvel of modern technology," the skis hook together to form a board. The bindings then slide into a different position to work both ways. This enables people to hike up trails, and set the board up, and snowboard down. Many people have been buying these skiboards and using them to go on mountain treks." - P.E. T.V. Skiing is the main basis of my report. In the itinerary, the majority of the things done involved skiing of some sort. There are many other tourist attractions in Colorado. Like said above, skiing is a major attraction in Colorado. Some of the other things in Colorado to do are; The U.S. Mint offers a educational view of the money making process. Many people visit this site each year. There are millions of coins produced each year at the mint. Although Colorado is not a good place to grow crops, it has other resources it depends on. These such resources contribute to the well being of the economy. The mountains provide raw material to mine. The forests are numerous, this is great for the logging company. This is also a major contributor to the economy .By selling the wood to mills, who then sell to people who need it, and then it pays back the workers to form a perfect cycle of distribution. Colorado has many rest areas such as hotels. Although, no information could be found on
The Colorado River Basin starts in the Rocky Mountains and cuts through 1500 miles of canyon lands and deserts of seven US states and two Mexican states to supply a collection of dams and reservoirs with water to help irrigate cropland, support 40 million people, and provide hydroelectric power for the inland western United States [1,2]. From early settlement, rights over the river have been debated and reassigned to different states in the upper and lower basin; however, all the distribution patterns lead to excessive consumption of the resource. In 1922, the seven US states signed into the Colorado River Compact, which outlined the policy for the distribution rights to the water [3], however, this compact was written during an exceptionally
I believe that the rock cycle has an impact on Colorado because of the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock cycles that lead up to the formation of the Earth’s mountains, and terrains. These different steps lead up to the rock cycle. To turn igneous to sedimentary, they are easily eroded, it breaks down to sediment. Sedimentary to metamorphic, sedimentary rocks are subject to pressure so it produces a chemical reaction. Metamorphic to igneous, when metamorphic rock gets hot, it melts turning it into igneous rock and this precedes the rock cycle.
Mild climate, numerous amenities and tranquillity of the state makes it the best place to settle after retirement. There are a number of retirement communities in the region that offers loads of features for the old aged people.
Colorado is a beautiful and historical state; the wide open plains, the glorious tall mountains, the history of its people that have shaped Colorado into what it is today. There is a lot to explore and learn when it comes to the Centennial State. Because of its history, Colorado is considered to be the meeting ground amongst three sections in the American West; the Atlantic Coast and Mississippi Valley, North and South, and Massachusetts and Virginia. These sections have shaped and developed the settlement and region in their own special ways.
The Colorado Mountains have been home to many strong females throughout history. Worthy of mention are a handful of women who came to the high country for very different reasons, but fell in love with the majestic beauty of the state, making it their permanent home and leaving an indelible mark on the tapestry of its narrative.
For the next forty years, hundreds of thousands of people will move westward. From 1830 to 1840 people from the East moved to the West. Many of these people started on the Oregon Trail, that started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Willamette Valley in Oregon. Hundreds of Thousands of people moved west for the new land grant, which if you were a full Indian, or half Indian and eighteen or older you could have three-hundred and twenty acres of land for free. If you were married, you would get six-hundred and forty acres of land. For people that lived in the East, this land was practically gold. There are two other trails that need some recognition also, the Mormon Trail and the California Trail. All three trails started in Independence,
Before settlers began to move to Oregon it had already been inhabited. Native Americans lives in Oregon this was their homeland. With the Study of Oregon, anthropologists had come to the conclusion that as many as 180,000 natives had lived in Oregon long before Europeans began to arrive. Therefore as the Oregon Trail became more popular and more people pushed west it brought an uprising of conflicts between pioneers and Native Americans. This interest in the west began with in 1803.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Oregon Trail was the main pathway for American emigrants who were searching for new lands. While most Oregon bound traveled a route that passed by landmarks, Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon there was never one set of wagon ruts leading west. The route was considered too demanding for the women and children or covered wagons to navigate.In 1836 that's when it all changed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. BothWhitman, took a small party of wagons from St.Louis to the Walls Valley.In 1843 Marcus Whitman, helped lead the first major wagon train for around 1,000 settlers along the Oregon Trail. In about ten years, 50,000 settlers traveled by the Oregon Trail each year.
The landscape is stark, but the beauty startling. The expanses seem to welcome, even beg you to explore. It’s a call you are unlikely to be able to resist (assuming it’s not scorchingly hot and you are not hungover from a big night in moments-away Las Vegas), nor is it one you should. In front of you is one of America’s grand spectacles, Red Rock Canyon.
The Appalachian Trail was also the product of a daydream atop Stratton Mountain, the brainchild of Benton MacKaye. MacKaye was an off-and-on federal employee, educated as a forester and self-trained as a planner, who proposed it as the connecting thread of "a project in regional planning." His proposal, drawing on years of talk of a "master trail" within New England hiking circles, was written at the urging of concerned friends in the months after his suffragette-leader wife killed herself. It appeared in the October 1921 edition of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, at the time a major organ the regional-planning movement. MacKaye envisioned a trail along the ridge-crests of the Appalachian
Numerous miles from my home, the St. Louis Arch rises above the soft grass along the tranquil Mississippi River where it cascades leisurely and calm. The water is timid too, while it glides shimmering by excited tourists under massive skyscrapers into the outstretched slender creek of the Missouri River. On one side of the stream the Lewis and Clark Trail travels through scenic bluffs and stretched by the sturdy Missouri State Capitol. Upon the historical Jefferson City beneath the sun the capital stands tall and very firm that an ant is swallowed by the murkiness if he crawls under it. People travel out of the capital to look at the Fountain of the Centaurs, and the elegant fountain is shielded with the moon’s radiance upon buildings and with
Let me tell you about a marvelous state called Nevada. Nevada is located in the southwestern side of the United States. Nevada is known as the “Silver State,” which is the official nickname, even though it says “Battleborn” on their flag. Since most of the U.S gold came from Nevada, you’d think that it would be called the Golden State, but nope, that title goes to California, for reasons I do not know. Furthermore, Nevada has a tremendous amount of history, fascinating geographical features, glorious climate, indispensable agriculture as well as industry, and captivating natural resources. All of these features are what makes Nevada, Nevada! You will see that Nevada is a phenomenal state to learn about.
Prior to settlement of the western United States, the Colorado River roamed free. Starting from cool mountain streams, the river eventually became a thunderous, silty force of nature as it entered the canyons along its path. The river nourished wetlands and other riparian habitats from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the delta at the Sea of Cortez in Northwest Mexico. Settlers along the river harnessed these waters mainly for agriculture via irrigation canals, but flooding from spring runoff wreaked havoc on agricultural land, prevented development in the floodplain and full utilization of the water, a waste in the eyes of western farmers. In order to meet current and future water demands in the west, the Federal Government
One of the largest geographic physical structures in the United States is the Colorado River. Human activity and its interaction with this great river have an interesting history. The resources provided by the river have been used by humans, and caused conflict for human populations as well. One of these conflicts is water distribution, and the effects drought conditions have played in this distribution throughout the southwestern region. Major cities such as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other communities in the southwest depend on the river. It provides water for over 20 million people, irrigation for 2 million acres of land, four thousand megawatts of hydroelectric energy, and over twenty million annual visitors for
Daniel Boone was born on October 22, 1734 and later died on September 26, 1820. He was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier explorations made him one of the first heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the state of Kentucky. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, in 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone.