Colorado Springs and El Paso County Relocation ... - Keep Trees

in the country, about six hours to East Coast cities. But you won’t
want to leave.
You’ll fi nd the proximity to fresh air, sunshine, mountains,
forests, rivers, trails, parks, wildlife, great jobs, housing, education,
healthcare and otherwise attractive amenities is immediate in most
of Colorado. The state motto, Nothing without Providence, is an
apt descriptor for the state and those who live here.
Throughout Colorado, residents enjoy an exceptional, worldclass
quality of life and an abundance of natural and man-made
wonders. The state holds title to many noteworthy distinctions.
In the whole world, Colorado has the largest fl at-top mountain,
highest toll road, highest auto tunnel, highest suspension bridge,
steepest railroad incline, fi rst rodeo, largest rodeo, largest natural
hot springs; is known as the melon capital and pinto bean capital;
and is the place where the cheeseburger was invented.
In North America, Colorado is home to the longest continuous
street and the tallest sand dunes. In the United States, Colorado
has the highest mean altitude (6,800 feet), most land area higher
than 10,000 feet, most fourteeners (mountains above 14,000 feet),
and most microbreweries per capita. Although home to the U.S.
Olympic Committee and U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado
is the only state to have turned down hosting the Olympics;
not that the people of the state don’t like sports and recreation.
Colorado is one of the most awesome recreational paradises in the
country, if not the world. Skiing; snowboarding; golfi ng; bicycling;
rafting; hiking; climbing; camping; biking; walking; jogging;
swimming; exploring; hunting wildlife, fossils and dinosaur bones;
fi shing; horse-back riding, hang-gliding; hot air ballooning; siteseeing;
and on and on. If it is fun and done outdoors, Coloradoans
are doing it.
You wouldn’t think there would be any time for work with
the endless roster of leisure-time activities, but there is a thriving,
diversifi ed economy. The people of Colorado strike a healthy
balance and fi nd time for work and play, with a heightened sense
COLORADO TRIVIA
Bird Lark Bunting
Animal Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Fish Greenback Cutthroat Trout
Insect Colorado Hairstreak Butterfl y
Flower Rocky Mountain Columbine
Tree Colorado Blue Spruce
Grass Blue Grama
Fossil Stegosaurus
Gemstone Aquamarine
Mineral Rhodochrosite
Rock Yule Marble
Tartan Colorado State Tartan
Quarter Released in 2006, features
a mountain
Songs Where the Columbines Grow
Rocky Mountain High
of family and community governing an independent, yet
cohesive group.
Colorado has a full roster of pro sports teams; in addition,
gambling is legal. The Colorado Lottery is very popular. There
are also bingo halls across the state, and casinos in a few choice
mountain towns.
Colorado has about 270 incorporated cities and most of the
population lives along what is known as the Front Range. The
Front Range is on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains,
running north and south through the top half of the state. The
western half of the state actually has the mountains and valleys.
Beyond the front range to the east is the half of the state that is
fl at, with high plains fl owing into Nebraska and Kansas along the
eastern border. Wyoming is to the north, Utah is to the west, and
Arizona and New Mexico are south.
An area known as Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona and Utah all touch, is the only place in the United States
where four states meet. You could play Twister and be in four
states at once. Many people just drop to all fours when visiting the
monument, which is about half an hour southwest of Cortez, just
so they can say they were in four states at once.
Colorado’s climate, while generalized as cool and dry, is also
sunny and warm throughout most of the year. Elevation and
proximity to mountains create a varied mix of biogeographically
diverse microclimates with varying
degrees of temperature variations
and precipitation. Thunderstorms,
blizzards, lightning and tornadoes are
not unheard of. What is predominant
though, are warm sunny days.
Welcome to Colorado. Enjoy this
relocation guide as you make the
move to your new home in Colorado.
Remember, Colorado Springs was
named the best place to live in
America by Money magazine in 2006.
You will be nestled in one of the most
popular states in the U.S., with all the
grandeur of the Rocky Mountains in
your backyard.
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