Colorado Postcards

With Colorado Postcards, we share brief insights into Colorado’s people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado.

Currently airing Postcards:

Grand Mesa

Prunes The Burro

Plesiosaur

Ellis Meredith

Colorado Postcards is supported by National Jewish Health.

Latest Episodes

Project Rulison

At first, it seemed no one could stop Project Rulison — a plan from the US Atomic Energy Commission to frack Colorado’s natural gas with a nuclear detonation.

Mt Sherman

You don’t hear of planes landing on Colorado fourteeners, except the time a Cessna landed on Mount Sherman near Leadville, in January 1967.

Decalibron

The Decalibron … neither an ancient Greek sport nor a machine of science fiction, it’s a hiking trail that gets its name from the first syllables of Mounts Democrat, Cameron, […]

Waterdogs

West of Salida, the trail to Waterdog Lakes is steep. But dog-loving hikers should note: your canine companion is NOT what the lakes are named for.

Colorado Postcards Team