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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Colorado’s gubernatorial families
The state’s highest mountain takes its name from the Colorado territory’s sixth governor Samuel Elbert.
Silver Cliff
They weren’t looking for silver, but they found it. Hauling lumber through the Wet Mountain Valley in 1873, three men spot a sheer cliff of dark, waxy-looking rock.
Keyboard of the Winds
High up in the Rocky Mountains, there’s a place where the air itself plays the landscape like an instrument.
Eldora
Legend told of a city of gold — so much gold, its king was covered in it, head to toe. They called him, and the city El Dorado.
Hackberry Hill
A single tree once stood guard over a hill in Arvada – a hackberry. For early settlers it was a landmark, its twisted trunk a seat for weary travelers.
Devil’s Head
For fire-watchers on the Front Range, there may be no better place than Devil’s Head. Devil’s Head rises 9300 feet west of Castle Rock.
Shed antlers
Most deer antlers have eight points, but in 2021 a hunter took down a 26-POINT buck west of Colorado Springs.
