POUDRE CANYON
Colorado highway 14 tops out at 10,276 ft at this pass before descending into North Park?
What is Cameron Pass?
Colorado's official state fossil was selected after a 2 year campaign by 4th graders apparently the children had excellent taste in enormous armored dinosaurs.
What is the stegosaurus?
Order this classic brunch beverage at a Denver diner and is there is a 99% chance it comes garnished with a locally made spiced pickle.
What is a bloody Mary?
In 1994, comedy sends Harry and LLoyd to Aspen in search of Mary Swanson. Although much of their Aspen adventure was actually filmed elsewhere in Colorado.
What is Dumb and Dumber?
This Colorado animal is commonly called an antelope. But it isn't actually an antelope at all. It can reach roughly 60mph making it the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Prong Horn?
Follow the Cache La Poudre far enough up stream and you will eventually reach it's headwaters at this lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.
What is Poudre Lake?
Colorado's capitol contains a rare pink stone near Beulah the particular coloration is reported to have been found nowhere else in the world.
What is Rose Onyx?
If you move into a brand new house in Colorado Springs or Denver the odds are 100% your back yard will initially consist of this dry beige material?
What is "dirt" or "weeds"
John Wayne won his only Academy award for playing Rooster Cogburn in this 1969 Western filmed extensively around Ridgeway, Ouray, and the San Juan Mountains.
What is True Grit?
Colorado has the largest population anywhere of this species whose mature males can carry horns weighing roughly 10% of their entire body weight.
What is the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep?
In 1986, Congress protected portions of the Poudre under the Federal System making it Colorado's first river to receive this designation.
What is the National Wild and Scenic River System?
Colorado recognizes this activity in which a human runs alongside a donkey over mountain terrain, its; official summer heritage sport. Because apparently regular running wasn't difficult enough.
What is pack burro racing?
If it is 65 degrees and sunny at noon on a Tuesday in October the odds are nearly 100% that a major snowstorm will hit the Front Range by this day of the same week.
What is Wednesday? (Or Tomorrow)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in this 1969 classic whose Colorado filming included Telluride, Silverton, Durango, and The Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
What is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Though it looks like a rodent, this tiny, non-hibernating alpine mammal that populates Colorado's high-altitude talus fields is actually a lagomorph, making it a close relative of the rabbit.
What is the pika? (Accept: American pika)
The Federally protected stretch beginning at Poudre Lake and ending at Joe Wright Creek is named for this former Colorado United State's Senator.
Who is Peter H. Dominick?
The Colorado capitol gold dome isn't merely gold colored. In 1908 Colorado miner's donated this many ounces of real gold to glit it.
What is 200 ounces?
This horrific, blue-eyed fiberglass horse sculpture located at Denver International Airport is affectionately nicknamed "Blucifer" after it crushed and killed its creator.
What is Mustang?
This Colorado landmark served as the grueling high altitude backdrop for the cycling race in the 1985 film "American Flyers"
What is the Grand Mesa?
Unlike Deer and Elk male Prong Horn don't simply keep their horns or drop the whole structure or drop the whole structure each year they shed the outer portion while the bony core remains.
What is the Horned Sheath?
Developed on the Poudre River system by a CSU engineer, this standard device revolutionized global water management by accurately measuring the flow of open irrigation canals.
What is the Parshall Flume?
Before Colorado won out proposed names for the territory included Colona, Osage, and this name which eventually ended up belonging to an entirely different state.
What is Idaho?
If you plan to drive all the way to the top of this mountain via the highest paved road in north America the odds are high you will be stopped by rangers at the brake check station to make sure your wheels aren't smoking.
What is Mount Blue Sky (Mount Evans)
This 1954 classic musical biographical film starring James Stewart was partially shot at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Where the famous Big Band leader frequently performs.
What is the Glenn Miller Story?
Biologists monitor this rare, colorful amphibian—the only true alpine toad native to Colorado—as a key indicator species for chytrid fungus in high-elevation wetlands.
What is the boreal toad?