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Colorado Essential Info

Overview

Looking for some thrills? Look no further than Colorado! Experience a Rocky Mountain high at Colorado's famous National Park, find out how the Garden of the Gods got its heavenly name, or hit the slopes on your skis or snowboard. Whatever gets your blood pumping and your heart thumping, Colorado has it!

Basics

Best Time To Go

May-Jun, Sep-Oct

Current Weather

27 °F

Partly Cloudy

Fun Facts

  1. Colorado is the only state ever to turn down hosting the Olympics.
  2. Colorado has almost as many dead towns as live ones .
  3. The 40 miles Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado, is the longest continuous street in America
  4. Butch Cassidy committed his first bank robbery in Telluride, Colorado, in 1889.
  5. The San Luis Alligator Farm in Colorado is the highest-altitude alligator colony in the world.

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