Alpine Tundra
Colorado’s alpine tundra is most visible in Rocky Mountain National Park above 11,400 feet. It’s a spectacular environment – but cold and severe. Still, life persists.
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.
Want to learn more about how Colorado Postcards are made? Creators Jon Pinnow and Gillian Coldsnow share the behind-the-scenes scoop in an interview with "Colorado Matters."
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Pikes Peak greets every new year with the flash, sparkle and boom of pyrotechnics. It’s a tradition that began in 1922.
Christmas lights
December, 1914. In Denver, 10 year old David Sturgeon is too sick to join his family downstairs around their Christmas tree.
O Christmas tree
Among the most popular varieties of Christmas tree is a native of the Rocky Mountains: the Colorado blue spruce.
Josephine Roche
Colorado’s first policewoman to walk a beat was a social worker. Josephine Roche earned an MSW in 1910 with her thesis “Economic Conditions in Relation to the Delinquency of Girls.”
Pikas
Look around the summit of Colorado’s many high peaks, and you’ll eventually see the pint-sized American pika – a powerfully resilient resident of the highest altitudes.
Pueblo
Before the gold rush, Colorado did have boomtowns. One of the first was ideally situated where the Arkansas River spills onto the Great Plains.
