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Water and land
Wells and water rights, septic and rural land, mineral rights, and what it really means to own ground in a place where water is its own kind of property.
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Water and land - June 10, 2026
Soaking above the world's deepest measured hot spring
Pagosa Springs sits above the Mother Spring, a geothermal spring so deep that the plumb line never found the bottom, and you can soak in the riverside pools it feeds.
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Some of Boulder County's tap water starts on the other side of the Divide
Many northern Front Range communities, including parts of Boulder County, receive some of their water from the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, which moves water under the Continental Divide to the eastern slope.
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South Platte Park in Littleton is a river floodplain kept wild on purpose
South Platte Park along the river in Littleton is a natural area with the Mary Carter Greenway trail and the Carson Nature Center, kept as floodplain open space.
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Switzerland of America: two big waterfalls within reach of downtown Ouray
Cascade Falls is a short, steep quarter-mile walk from the edge of Ouray, and Bear Creek Falls drops right beside the Million Dollar Highway.
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Taylor Park Reservoir and the Taylor River below it
Taylor Park Reservoir is a Forest Service reservoir in the upper Taylor River basin, and the Taylor River below the dam is a designated Gold Medal trout fishery.
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The Akron Station That Taught the Plains to Hold Its Rain
Just outside Akron, a USDA research station has spent more than a century figuring out how to farm on 14 to 18 inches of rain a year.
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The Animas is Durango's river, and a closely watched one
The Animas River is the heart of Durango's outdoor life, and because it drains old mining country upstream, agencies keep a close eye on its water quality, especially since the 2015 Gold King Mine release.
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The Arkansas through Chaffee County is Gold Medal trout water
A long stretch of the Arkansas River through Chaffee County is designated Gold Medal Water for trout, and fishing rules and access come through Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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The Black Canyon's walls are some of the oldest rock in Colorado
The dark, striped cliffs of Black Canyon of the Gunnison near Montrose are nearly two-billion-year-old Precambrian rock, laced with pink pegmatite that gives the Painted Wall its name.
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The Chalk Cliffs below Mount Princeton are not made of chalk
The pale Chalk Cliffs on the flank of Mount Princeton are altered granite, tied to the same underground heat that feeds the area's hot springs along Chalk Creek.
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The Eagle River runs two very different rafting trips, so pick the one that fits your group
The Eagle River offers splashy, family-friendly water on the Lower Eagle and a short, steep stretch of harder rapids near Dowd Junction, so it pays to match the section to your crew before you launch.
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The Flatirons are tilted slabs of an old sandy plain
Boulder's signature Flatirons are slabs of Fountain Formation sandstone that were laid down flat, then tipped on edge when the Rocky Mountains rose.
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The Gunnison River through Black Canyon has special fishing rules
The Gunnison River through Black Canyon is Gold Medal and Wild Trout water with flies-or-lures-only rules, catch-and-release for rainbow trout, and a no-fishing zone in the first 200 yards below Crystal Dam.
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The Gunnison Tunnel: why the Montrose valley is farmland
A 5.8-mile tunnel bored under Vernal Mesa from 1905 to 1909 still carries Gunnison River water that turns the dry Uncompahgre Valley into Montrose's farm country.
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The High Line Canal is an old ditch turned long shady trail
The High Line Canal is a historic irrigation ditch, long owned by Denver Water, whose banks now form a long, mostly flat, tree-shaded trail across the metro area.
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The High Line Canal runs through Arapahoe County, but it is not a backyard water source
The historic High Line Canal is an irrigation and recreation corridor through Arapahoe County, not a water supply that comes with a nearby home.
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The Never Summer Mountains are the young volcanic edge of the park
The Never Summer Range west of Grand Lake is made of volcanic rock far younger than the ancient granite that forms most of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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The Republican River ties Kit Carson County's water to a three-state agreement
Water in the Republican River basin is shared by Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska under the Republican River Compact, which shapes how much irrigation can happen in this corner of the state.
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The reservoirs around Leadville are part of a big water project
Twin Lakes and Turquoise Lake are tied into the federal Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, which moves and stores water for use downstream.
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The river below Ridgway dam has its own catch-and-release rules
The Uncompahgre River tailwater below Ridgway Reservoir, in the Pa-Co-Chu-Puk reach, carries flies-and-lures-only and catch-and-release trout rules that differ from the river downstream.
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The rock that named Castle Rock was hardened by volcanic silica
The flat-topped butte over Castle Rock is capped by erosion-resistant Castle Rock Conglomerate, bound by silica cement that formed from ancient volcanic ash.
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The San Miguel River carries water rights, not just scenery
The San Miguel River runs the length of the county and is governed by Colorado water rights, so river frontage on a parcel does not by itself grant a right to use the water.
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The stone walls radiating from the Spanish Peaks are famous volcanic dikes
The long rock ridges that fan out from the base of the Spanish Peaks are radial dikes, hardened sheets of igneous rock left when molten material filled cracks and the softer ground around them wore away.
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The whole La Garita country was shaped by one enormous eruption
The pale spires of Wheeler, the climbing walls of Penitente Canyon, and the rock under much of western Saguache County all come from a single volcanic eruption about 27.8 million years ago, one of the largest known on Earth.
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