Finding the Beginning of the Colorado River

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The Colorado River travels over 1,400 miles, from the Rockies to Mexico, and supplies water to over 40 million people in the western U.S. and Mexico. Due to drought and increased usage the river has been under tremendous pressure over the last few decades and the water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead are at record lows. With the river being in the news so much recently, we wanted to go into the Rockies and see where the Colorado River begins. And we mean where it really begins.
We drove Colorado State Route 14 into the Rocky Mountains before driving down Long Draw Road, a 13 mile dirt road that is known for the amount of moose in the area. At the end of the road we reached La Poudre Pass, the Never Summer Mountains, the Continental Divide, and Rocky Mountain National Park, where we walked the rest of the way to the valley where the Colorado River begins.
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@lbarnhill5493 Год назад

Even the Mississippi River has a modest begining. I think, many people, don't realize the enormous amount of watershed; any sloping hill may carry.

@cassiusdio6048 Год назад

Yes it begins in lake Itasca Minnesota.

@allangibson8494 Год назад

@@cassiusdio6048 And Mississippi used to drain the Great Lakes (until the Niagara river got unblocked).

@AuRowe Год назад

Very true.

@mjproebstle Год назад

Itasca State Park in Minnesota is one of the most beautiful state parks you will ever see.

@74bshs Год назад

We walked across the Mississippi River at its source at Lake Itaska, MN some years ago. Very cool.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

I doubt they'll see this, but just in case I wanted to make a note to thank the Ranger that we ran into in two different places that was super helpful. I didn't catch her name but she was great.

@evsta100 Год назад

Cool vid. never knew that. I did watch a vid were people did a course I must have forgot but when they followed it down all the way to LA in the basins it trickled out short of the Pacific. OH Yeah THANKS

@kosjeyr Год назад

If you do these regularly, maybe try to find the origin of the Snake River or go to Two Ocean Pass where there's a creek that forms near Grand Teton and then splits into a creek flowing east known as the Atlantic Creek and the other flowing west as the Pacific Creek.

@ChrisBChronisterJr92 Год назад

It was my wife.

@myaccount5204 Год назад

These videos are relaxing and educational. Thumbs up!! Nice job

@elainesteffen4968 Год назад

Great filming adventures captured for us.

@energizme100 Год назад

I live 6 miles south of Breckenridge Colorado, The Blue River's headwater at the top of Hoosier Pass is one of "The start of the Colorado River." There are many tributaries to the Colorado River. The Blue River flows north from here and confluences with the Colorado River near Kremmling, Colorado. Thanks for highlighting the importance of this awesome body of water which is so important to so many animals and humans.

@dianesaldivar824 Год назад

Very enlightening. Thanks

@DrJohn493 Год назад

Gotta sample the fly fishing in the Blue before I get too old!

@WOODLASE Год назад

I've camped and did some trout fishing on the Blue River in the early Fall of 1975. AWESOME place..

@lesxylophone3347 11 месяцев назад

Blue river is beautiful! Some of my favorite camp spots for sure.

@matthewcowen1390 11 месяцев назад

Visiting your area in recent years.... some of the most beautiful country this nation has. You're blessed haha

@donnythompson9233 Год назад

Great video! I’ve been in The Never-Summer Mountain Range, while fly fishing the Colorado River and its tributaries years ago. One day on my trip, (it was late August) I was standing at a scenic overlook, way up above the tree line, and a National Park officer came over to me and started talking with me, he was very nice. I pointed to a large patch of ice and snow that was down in a valley, and shadowed by a mountain, and I said, “I bet that patch of snow and ice down there in that big shadow will take until next year to melt”, at which point he laughed, good naturedly, and said to me, “Well, that particular patch of snow has been there since 1960, so I’m guessing probably not!” It was then that he told me that I was in The Never Summer Range, and that there were many patches of snow and ice in the range that had been there for decades. It was such beautiful country, and I’ve always wanted to go back. Perhaps one of these days I will. 🙏

@bluez2677 3 месяца назад

That's a very wonderful story. I'll bet you have some amazing ones from the places that you have been fly fishing. You should write a book of them . I definitely would love to read it

@marymcmahon659 Год назад

I've lived in Colorado for 50 years and have just about seen it all. It was so incredibly beautiful but after the massive amount of people that are here now I don't go up much anymore. But I know what it was like when it was wide and open and free.

@Vladviking Год назад

Indeed, I was born in AZ . After about a decade+ I went back for a visit and was deeply disappointed and won't return.

@Tarnationnation5 Год назад

@@Vladviking so sad. Colorado and Arizona have special spirits. I love them both so extremely much.

@dr.pepperoni5415 Год назад

Its not like the entire state has been taken over. There is plenty of wilderness in Colorado, you just have to drive over an hour. How terrible.

@tracy2762 Год назад

go to florida and you can feel some pain..yes its crowded in denver etc but you can get away pretty easily..

@debcarpenter8519 Год назад

I have lived on the front range for 20 yrs, plus I lived in Estes Park for 8yrs. I used to spend every day in Rocky Mountain National Park, cleaning up after residents and tourists. They've trampled that beautiful park to death. I live in Loveland now. I may get up to RMNP once a year during the rut. It's a sad situation.

@johngood542 Год назад

Interesting trivia: 101 years ago, the Colorado River didn't begin anywhere near here. The river whose source you're investigating was then known as the Grand River (whence the name of the nearby ditch). It didn't pick up the name Colorado until it reached Utah and its confluence with the Green River. A 1921 proclamation of Congress changed that: Grand became Colorado.

@davidmorgan7818 Год назад

Yes! Thank you! Colorado actually stole the Colorado River. It should actually be called the Green River, which is much larger, even though it’s designated as a tributary.

@noahmichael-7652 Год назад

They say all by design, but it’s actually all by redesign!

@SPR8364-0 Год назад

Actually, the Grand River had (and has) a larger flow of water than the Green River at the confluence. However, the Green River has a larger drainage basin. At least that is what Wikipedia says under the listing for the Green River. If you look at the confluence on Google Maps, the rivers appear to be pretty similar in size. Also, I think the Missouri River is bigger than the Mississippi River at their junction as well.

@letsdanceonhere Год назад

Texas also has a Colorado River that starts and ends in Texas.

@Michael-sb8jf Год назад

@@SPR8364-0 No your thinking of the Ohio and Mississippi Hydrologically speaking the "ohio river" is the river that flows into the gulf but due to ehh some flubbing of names to gain bigger territory via treaties. Or you could say it in another way the Mississippi river starts in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. Because the Mississippi was named at its mouth by the French I probably over complicated that explanation

@mikelyons372 Год назад

I went to high school with members of a family born and raised in Poudre Canyon. They shared so many spots and facts shared by their grandparents to their parents and then them. I aways felt honored to learn from them. One thing I never knew was that sign marking the source of the Colorado River. Just shows there is always something to learn. Thank you for your videos!!

@galardmills5306 Год назад

Timely and pertinent video! I thought I was the only person obsessed enough to seek the headwaters of the Colorado. I hiked up to the meadow from RMNP. You certainly added important context. Thanks for showing everyone how important things can start in simple ways.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

The hike looks great, I was really interested in checking out the Lulu City ghost town, but just didn't have the time unfortunately. Hopefully I can get back soon.

@6thwatergateplumber Год назад

I've always wondered about where this river starts, and thanks to your energy, and willingness to make the hike, I'm better informed. It's remarkable that this rather small stream is responsible for providing water to so many people.

@ronmcmartin4513 Год назад

"willingness to make the hike" ...At 10K feet, even when you're in shape at sea level, you get Gassed quickly going up hills at 10K. You're saying "What happened?!"

@jasonmason8413 Год назад

Majestic things have humble beginnings. Thank you for this. I had the pleasure of living next to co river for a year in the western slope of the rockies. We have such a beautiful country

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

The Western Slope is great too. Really need to get back.

@shredead Год назад

Living in socal I occasionally find myself at the Colorado River by way of Bullhead, Needles, Parker, Blythe, etc and have always been curious about this. Thank you for making this beautiful and informative video

@mikemoren532 Год назад

I took a six-month road trip around the western U.S. and Canada in 2008, and during that trip I crossed the Colorado a few times. I was driving through RMNP and noticed on my map that the Colorado River started in RMNP! So I decided to hike up to the headwaters to this incredibly important river. As I came up to this engineered channel and followed it up to the divide (and what I learned was the Grand Ditch), it hit me that right from the very beginning of the Colorado, its waters are robbed and diverted away. There was a lot more water flowing in the Grand Ditch to the east of the Divide than in the actual Colorado River. Using our river and groundwater is part of our human existence, but it's still a little sad to see the water diverted right from the very beginning. Nice video, it brought back some great memories of that day and my trip around the West.

@daybird2 Год назад

Living on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, I have often wondered just exactly what the start of it looks like. Well, now I know. Many thanks for this enjoyable video.

@wolfcounselor8346 Год назад

Good job and perfect timing. The Colorado has gone viral and you have provided a great perspective on the subject.

@spencerkimble3824 Год назад

That’s how you say “Poudre,” alright. I live in Fort Collins and drive up 14 all the time. Beautiful area

@deetrvl4life875 Год назад

I love source videos!! It's always amazing to me, how sometimes the tiniest things become the huge roaring necessities in life ;) Rivers and streams included! Thank you for doing this one, I always enjoy your vids.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

I recently saw a video on the source of the Thames in England and it was so fascinating since there aren't huge mountains there.

@OrdinaryAverageMan Год назад

yes man a small trickle turning to a raging river is amazing

@fredcarani6764 Год назад

It's fun finding the source of major rivers. The Salmon River in Idaho starts in a high basin near Galena Pass with a couple of creeks coming into it. Probably springs in the basin too.

@scottburton6607 Год назад

As someone who grew up in San Diego, I really enjoy your videos. Hope you enjoy Colorado.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thanks. Colorado was great but we are back home in San Diego now.

@rapturebound197 Год назад

Grew up near there. Amazing the quality production one guy with a camera can put out. Excellent work all the way round my friend. Thanx for the video! 👍

@martyinsd Год назад

Thank you Steve, excellent video. I live in San Diego, so I definitely depend on the Colorado River and have been closely monitoring the drought situation.

@markomaticd4106 10 месяцев назад

Another very enjoyable video. Thanks for taking us along!

@PinInTheAtlas Год назад

What a fantastic and fun little adventure, to think all the beauty that river meanders through and has helped create.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thanks. It was so crazy to think of how that tiny bit of water was the start of such an important river.

@swankles3877 Год назад

Wow!! Great research Steve, I always learn something new from your videos 😊

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you, we appreciate it!

@semiproactive9625 Год назад

Thanks Steve, very enjoyable. I'll be back again.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you.

@TouchingClothProd Год назад

Makes me think of Robert Plant singing that line from Ten Years Gone: "And though the course may change sometimes, Rivers always reach the sea" and how that no longer applies to the mighty Colorado ... the river that carved the Grand Canyon is so dammed and used, that it's now barely a trickle as it disappears into the sand several miles before it reaches the Gulf of California. What have we done?

@lewstone5430 Год назад

*Zeppelin!*

@mikekuczynski1552 Год назад

I think Jim Morrison said it in 1967 What have they done to the earth, yeah? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn and Tied her with fences and dragged her down I hear a very gentle sound With your ear down to the ground We want the world and we want it (we want the world and we want it!) Now Now? Now!

@zonacrs Год назад

I thought the exact same thing. Funny how watching something can trigger lyrical memories.

@superoffended6737 Год назад

It will see the ocean again. Once our dumbasses are out of the picture.

@keeponlivin81 Год назад

For those wondering about the blackened trees, this damage is from the Cameron Peak fire in 2020. Scorched more than 208,000 acres and started just a stones throw from Long Draw.

@roberthenry9319 Год назад

I searched the comments for the anser to that question, and you provided it. Thank you.

@StickyKeys187 Год назад

Some of the trees have signs of pine bark beetle damage too. I think all the dead trees caused by the infestation really helped contribute to the massive wildfires during that year.

@keeponlivin81 11 месяцев назад

The pine beetle infestation coupled with extreme drought conditions equalled a catastrophic 2020 fire season

@wilsonpicket8505 Год назад

Your best vid yet! Thank you, it was very informative! Beautiful country.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Wow, thank you!

@dcbrit2003 4 месяца назад

This is what RU-vid is all about. Great video and great channel

@matthewl2980 Год назад

Love the video! I’m a wildfire hydrology researcher and wildland firefighter. Collect TSS, water chemistry, and chlorophyll samples at long draw every week!

@InterstateKyle Год назад

Interesting how you went up to the source of the Colorado from east of the divide. I always thought you would get to it easier from the west side since that's the way the river flows. Great content here! Thumbs up!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you. We happened to be on the eastern side so it worked out for us. it looked like driving from the west you really have to circle around everything to get to the road.

@robertlubnau1317 Год назад

As someone who went to college in that area (University of Wyoming) you got the name of The Poudre right. Amazing area and it has been years since I have been there. Enjoy your videos, especially the history along the 8 and 10. I travel track and forth to San Antonio from SoCal and your videos help understand the history

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you. I have a few things planned out that way but have just been waiting on it to cool down some.

@1STGeneral Год назад

So the French pronounced powder as in gun powder the way it was pronounced in this video ?

@mas5867 Год назад

@@SidetrackAdventures when you show the map and the line draws on the map along your route, what software are you using?

@Tylow75 Год назад

I’ve never been to this area but the name is French. It means powder as in gun powder. I’m French and in French « poudre » is pronounced : poo - dr . The last E is not pronounced (unlike in Spanish).

@kingkrimson8771 Год назад

@@1STGeneral Hard to come up with an exact pronunciation in text form but it sounds like poo-druh with a tongue roll on the letter d

@Jim-qc6gu 3 месяца назад

Traveled there over 20 years ago. Absolutely beautiful.

@josepep4970 7 месяцев назад

Thank you Steve for such a tremendous and educational video. You did a great job of explaining to us so nice and very understanding about this great river in this great country of ours. Thanks again. JP

@rogersnead7059 Год назад

Your photography is great, your explanations and historical facts are well presented. It is refreshing to see a video that is so well put together. Thanks. It made me subscribe to your channel and I look forward to reviewing all your material.

@Kobewankenobiofficial Год назад

I literally camped over there at Grandview campground and walked to the headwaters as well and lulu city site in July. It’s beautiful out there man

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

I wish I would have time to go to the Lulu City site. At least it gives me a reason to go back.

@goofsaddggkle7351 Год назад

This was fascinating and beautiful. Thank you so much!

@mudkips8399 11 месяцев назад

3:12 I love how right before you get into "haven't seen any wild life yet", a little forest critter runs by in the background

@awitnessuntoallnations Год назад

Well done! It's always great to see things first hand. During our visit to RMNP, we found this spot to be very interesting too. Glad we found your channel! 👍

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thanks. Hoping to check out more of RMNP in the future.

@LeftThumbBreak Год назад

Love the scenery and music and history.

@gtrpkr2487 Год назад

Your pronunciation is correct. I floated the Poudre in 2010 out of Fort Collins. Had a great time.

@lizdietrich6798 Год назад

Thank you Sidetrack Adventures! I’m a Native Coloradan, I’ve been to the Poudre River & Colorado River but never to the beginning of it! LOVE IT! Amazing & Beautiful, I LOVE this State! ❤🥰

@hermandegroot1946 Год назад

Interesting video sir, it is astonishing for me that there is so much vegetation at an altitude of 10000 feet. In Europe you just find bare rock at this altitude. Shame that the Colorado does not reach the sea. Greetings from the Netherlands where the highest mountain is 1000 feet.

@sueantoniotti8520 Год назад

Great video. I'm glad you were able to breathe at that elevation. I was 29 when I moved to Colorado Springs and it was hard to jog.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

No trouble with the elevation there. Went up higher later on and definitely got winded though.

@dennissullivan2518 Год назад

Amazing, and grateful to you for getting this information condensed down to about 9 minutes. Great work.

@droach5241 Год назад

Adding to my list!! My Fiancé would love this trip! Thanks

@Nuk3mB455 Год назад

Awesome video, Steve! This one might be my favorite.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Awesome, thank you!

@sjh60633 Год назад

Amazing that it all starts with a little stream. Great content. Fantastic video.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you, we appreciate it.

@zHumanfactor 26 дней назад

I have greatly enjoyed your videos. You are a natural host. Very informative, well-researched, and well-delivered. Thank you for all the time you dedicate to your channel, it is much appeciated.

@RoaldvdM 3 месяца назад

I've been watching about 15 videos in a timespan of 2 days - they're all awesome!

@SidetrackAdventures 3 месяца назад

Thanks! I appreciate it.

@wildlyunrulyadventures3942 Год назад

Absolutely fascinating video about natural history, human history, and the current significance and importance of the Colorado River. Thank you for sharing this.

@danothemano4129 Год назад

We first visited this beautiful area in 71, the massive changes and beetle kill is both staggering and frightening.

@daveh4283 Год назад

This has been on my bucket list for a while

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

You should go if you get the chance! its such a great job and the area around the Colorado River start was so peaceful.

@karlek67 Год назад

Thank you for doing this for those 0f us who cannot travel.

@Kahless_the_Unforgettable Год назад

Great video. I upvoted near the beginning. Then you showed us something else amazing, and I actually tried to upvote again. To be honest, this happened a few times during the video. Granted, every time you showed us something cool, I'd look it up. So maybe my memory isn't quite as bad as it seems. I turned a 12 minute video into an hour long video doing this.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Wow, thank you.

@markbridge_music1 Год назад

Great video and content-thanks for your work putting this together and sharing! Mark

@christinasmith984 9 месяцев назад

You did an amazing job on this video. It was very informative and entertaining to watch.

@bluedragonfruitnursery Год назад

Amazing you went to the origin of the Colorado River. Thank you for showing us and we hope to go there one day to this historical landmark.

@deborahlh7747 Год назад

Very well done Steve. Hope you enjoyed your trip.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thanks. We did. Wish I could have stayed longer.

@DreamcastQ Год назад

Beautiful video, I haven't been up there in many years, might be time for a trip

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

You should if you get the chance. Aside from a few park rangers and someone from the water district we were the only ones around.

@davidhook487 8 месяцев назад

Great stuff! Thanks so much! Love your videos and very informative! Keep them coming !

@DesertCruiser1 Год назад

Nice video, well done. I've been to Granby, CO and new it began up there somewhere. The Grand Ditch was something completely new to me. Thanks again for your quality presentation!!

@HikingWithShawn Год назад

It reminds me of the Mississippi River. The starting point of it is a small creek that me and you could walk across. But if you get in it where I live in Southern Illinois, it'll take you with it. Great video, really enjoyed it!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

I'm always surprised at how wide the Mississippi gets because I'm so used to our western rivers.

@godfatherd349 Год назад

@@SidetrackAdventures the Mississippi river is a beast

@ETAisNOW Год назад

Mississippi queen, you know what I mean..

@ObamAmerican48 Год назад

I'm a native Coloradoan and it's really special to be at the headwaters of the Colorado River. It's at the base of the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park. And yes, it's Poo-der (Poudre).

@chasbodaniels1744 Год назад

I’ve wondered about that pronunciation for decades. Finally!

@rrios283s73 Год назад

Thanks for going up there.

@timmyjones1921 Год назад

Thank You Mr. Steve .

@nix4644 Год назад

As a Colorado native I say a hearty "well done". It's been several decades since I've been to the places in your video. I need to get back there.

@denvermatlock4809 11 месяцев назад

Your not a native🤦‍♂️

@ck-qs1xl Год назад

Every river and creek where I grew up I explored the headwaters of for fishing purposes mostly and discovered tributary after tributary builds these rivers into what they become

@jTroutuorT7034 23 дня назад

This is a great insight. I love Colorado, lived there and fly fished all over. To see this spot is just amazing. Next visit to Colorado, I do need to get up there for sure!! Thanks!

@samhill3496 Год назад

Beautiful area of NA. Glad to see the drone footage, a lot you miss trying to see thru the trees. Good work.

@roefamily Год назад

Some facts... the Green River in Utah contributes more water to the Colorado river as does the Gunnison River which flows thru Gunnison Colorado so where does the Colorado River really start

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Up until 1921 it started where the Green River meets it but after some politics they declared the Grand River as part of the Colorado.

@jamesgantner6809 Год назад

The Gunnison River flows into the Colorado at the town of ......Grand Junction. The Gunnison River starts about 10 miles north of Gunnison the town, at Almont, where the East and Taylor rivers meet..

@jagz926 Год назад

I really enjoy all your videos, but this one is extra cool. Thanks for sharing!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Glad you enjoy it!

@VendettaProspecting Год назад

you know i was just talking to my sons about this steve! Thank you for making this video!!!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Our pleasure!

@lanemimnaugh7486 Год назад

I've seen it rainin fire in the sky. Talk to God and listen to the casual reply. 🎶 Rocky mountain high 🎶

@oxigenarian9763 Год назад

Yes - as a long time Coloradoan who lived where your video goes, it's pronounced, "poo-der". Locals don't use the full name, Cache La Poudre, we just call it "the Poudre River". It's is beautiful up there and have hunted and cross country skied that area many times...

@kurtloptien185 Год назад

So true, all of us old Larimer County kin. And for those who don't speak french, the name "Cache la Poudre" translates to "powder cache". The French trappers named it such and apparently cached their gun powder in the area. The Poudre is one of the few rivers along the Front Range to be designated a "Wild and Scenic River", as it is not dammed. Thanks for the vid!

@tweitner Год назад

When I lived in Colorado, I'd go from Castle Rock to Fort Collins and then on Highway 14 to my fishing spot. Yeah, it took 2-3 hours to get there, but the drive through the Poudre River canyon and over Cameron Pass was worth the trip. I'd end up at Ranger Lakes which has spectacular scenery. I was devastated to hear about the Cameron Pass wildfire a few years ago.

@jimijefferson82 Год назад

When I lived in Colorado I bedded more broads than I expected the view was amazing mounds and gorges I went back for seconds it was spectacular. I heard about the beaver bush fire a few years ago, I was happy to hear that thing got a trim it was overgrown.

@bruceengland9140 Год назад

Thank you for showing our grand state and its beauty. I spend most of my time mountaineering 14ers, but have been to the head waters of the Colorado from Hwy 34, north.

@davidmclaughlin2796 Год назад

Good one Steve This Colorado native thanks you kindly.

@CactusAtlas Год назад

OH THIS IS FASCINATING. With our news focusing so much on what's going to happen to our water source (and a recently trip to the Hoover Dam), this really puts some perspective on things. And the landscape of Colorado... 🤩 So fascinating to see the origin of the water that ultimately carved out the Grand Canyon over time. We've been talking about going to Colorado for a while (well, we tried and kind of did recently) but I think this needs to go on the list. It just looks so ... humbling? And beautiful. Great video!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Colorado is amazing. I wish we could have stayed longer and explored more. I guess that's the problem with everywhere though, so much to see and so little time.

@gb8894 Год назад

Seriously wanted to tell you, that I am so pleased by your channel. RU-vid has gotten to the point where almost every single video annoys me, whether it be someone with annoying narration, pointless jump cuts, or general obnoxiousness, or poor quality/somehow misleading. This video did none of the above. It was exactly what was described in the title, plus good camera work, explanations, pleasant voice. Absolutely great job, keep up the good work!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you. I appreciate it.

@coloradomallcrawlers Год назад

I work the railroad line that follows the Colorado through the Rockies and really enjoyed seeing this! I also need to get back that way and film more off-road trails near Ft. Collins. Great vid!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you, appreciate it. I imagine the railroad through there is amazing.

@bisket2003 Год назад

This is great! Thank You for making this! Wit all the lake Mead talk as of late, I hopped on maps a month or so back and started to explore this very subject.

@jerroldkazynski5480 Год назад

Nice! I'm in Idaho near where the Snake and Missouri Rivers begin. And the Yellowstone, etc! The world's humans settled along rivers.

@twostop6895 Год назад

lol, all of Idaho is west of the Continental divide your statement is a huge miss, the Missouri river starts in Montana east of the Divide, and the Snake River starts in in Wyoming in Yellowstone

@jerroldkazynski5480 Год назад

@@twostop6895 the rivers I mention all begin in the MT, WY, ID juncture, a few hours drive for me. So yeah, I'm near, telling a guy out of San Diego

@mlss1229 Год назад

I lived in Colorado for 8 years. As we headed west (from Denver highway 70 to San Diego destination) we stopped near Glenwood Springs at a rest stop next to Colorado river what a beautiful and mighty river, it was flowing very rapidly and the view surrounding it was spectacular😊❤.

@TheCrappieReports Год назад

Great video, thank you for your travels to bring this to us all. It truly is a beautiful America...

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Thank you.

@DrJohn493 Год назад

Loved this video finding the Colorado River headwaters. I've sampled the fly fishing on a short section of the La Poudre but never traced the headwaters. I've explored the source of the Rio Grande and Arkansas Rivers headwaters but haven't ventured to the source of the Colorado River...yet. Thanks for some great Colorado scenery. Too, a great tribute to a very important western river.

@AlanDayley Год назад

Thanks for the journey and views. I enjoyed the vicarious visit!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Our pleasure!

@Allenmarshall Год назад

That made me cry. It's so beautiful. I want to go there and feel it.

@pamelakern2849 Год назад

Thankyou for explaining the proper pronunciation of Poudre!! Loved this video. 🤩🤩

@atcjoe1600 Год назад

One little piece of this beautiful country ! Thanks for sharing.

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

Our pleasure!

@subhashnamey5562 Год назад

Thank you Sir. I loved every scene of your beautiful video. I'm a retired Geography teacher and therefore appreciate your video.

@butchbinion1560 Год назад

Thanks I enjoyed watching. ✌🏻👊

@williamjones7163 Год назад

Thanks for this video. I lived in Arizona for 36 years so I benefited greatly from the Colorado River. I just never knew where it started other than in Colorado.

@marct9587 Год назад

I've not hiked all the way up, but I've been there on US 34 where it runs along the river. At that location, the Colorado is a beautiful, clear mountain stream, and the surrounding vegetation is gorgeous.

@carolkrueger7169 Год назад

How funny I run across your show. I've been curious about its origins lately and followed it on maps and haven't been able to find the start of it. Thank you. Thanks also to John and David below for that info.