These native people are Colorado’s longest continuous residents. They were here for generations before Zebulon Pike even set eyes on the Rocky Mountains.
Who is the Ute Indians?
100
This landform is a canyon on the Arkansas River
What is the Royal Gorge?
100
William and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the fort to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes.
What is Bents Fort?
100
This state symbol is named for their massive, curling horns.
What is the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep?
200
Colorado is home to the largest population of this species anywhere.
What is the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep?
200
This person was the greatest Denver promoter, bringing
people and money into the city. He established the first paper, the Rocky Mountain News.
Who is William Byers?
200
A beautiful area of sandstone formations.
What is The Garden of the Gods?
200
This place is a former gold mining camp in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
What is Central City?
200
This bird is a common sparrow of the Great Plains.
What is the Lark Bunting?
300
These animals are "barking" squirrels, not dogs, and are among our most "watchable" wildlife.
What is the Prairie Dog?
300
This person traveled frequently, gave time and money
to charity, sought women’s suffrage, and was a survivor of the Titanic.
Who is Margaret (Molly) Brown
300
This landform is Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake.
What is Grand Lake?
300
This place has some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world.
What is Mesa Verde National Park?
300
Native to many small streams and rivers throughout most of Colorado.
What is the Greenback Cutthroat Trout?
400
is the longest of our weasels they have webbed toes and water-resistant fur.
What is the River Otter?
400
This Coloradan guided many important expeditions into the
territories of the American West.
Who is Kit Carson?
400
Spanish missionaries knew of this area as early as 1642. Fur traders and trappers visited the region during the 1700s. And in 1806, Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike – for whom Pikes Peak is named – established a camp at the eastern portal of this landform.
What is The Royal Gorge?
400
The town is named after Missouri native Joel Estes, who founded the community in 1859. It is also the home to the Rocky Mountain National Park.
What is Estes Park?
400
This symbol was designated the official state insect of Colorado in 1996 due to the steady lobbying of 4th graders from Wheeling Elementary in Aurora, Colorado
What is the Hairstreak Butterfly?
500
This animal is Colorado’s largest cat.
What is the Mountain Lion?
500
This person established a trade business along the Santa Fe Trail.
Who is William Bent?
500
This landform is named after the prominent castle tower-shaped butte near the center of a nearby town.
What is Castle Rock?
500
Former gold mining boomtown, it is now an artistic retreat and a ski resort town.