1．“Beulah red”is the name of the red marble that gives the Colorado State Capitol its distinctive splendor（光彩，壮观）．Cutting，polishing，and installing the marble in the Capitol took six years，from 1894to 1900．All of the “Beulah red”marble in the world went into the Capitol．It cannot be replaced，at any price．
2．Colorado is the only state in history，to turn down the Olympics．In 1976the Winter Olympics were planned to be held in Denver．62％of all state Voters choose at almost the last minute not to host the Olympics，because of the cost，pollution and population boom it would have on the State Of Colorado，and the City of Denver．
3．The United States Air Force Academy is located in Colorado Springs．
4．The world’s largest flat－top mountain is in Grand Mesa．
5．In Fruita，the town folk celebrate “Mike the Headless Chicken Day”．Seems that a farmer named L．A．Olsen cut off Mike’s head on September 10，1945in anticipation（预期，预料）of a chicken dinner）—and Mike lived for another 4years without a head．
6．The LoDo region of Denver stands for Lower Downtown．
7．Denver，lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger（夹干酪和碎牛肉的三明治，放有干酪的肉饼）．The trademark for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935to Louis Ballast．
8．The highest paved road in North America is the Road to Mt．Evans off of I－70from Idaho Springs．The Road climbs up to 14，258Ft．above sea level．
9．Colorado means “colored red”and is known as the “Centennial State”．
10．The Durango &Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad continues to provide year round train service operating a historical train with rolling stock indigenous（本土的）to the line．The line was constructed primarily to haul（拖拉，拖运）mine ores，both gold and silver，from the San Juan Mountains．
11．The United States federal government owns more than 1/3of the land in Colorado．
12．Colorado contains 75％of the land area of the U．S．with an altitude［（尤指海拔）高度，高处（海拔甚高的地方）］over 10，000feet．
13．Colorado has 222state wildlife areas．
14．Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest continuous street in America．
15．The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly 1mile high above sea level．
16．The Dwight Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel between Clear Creek &Summit counties is the highest auto tunnel in the world．Bored at an elevation of 11，000feet under the Continental Divide it is 8，960feet long and the average daily traffic exceeds 26，000vehicles．
17．Leadville is the highest incorporated（合成一体的）city in the United States at 10，430feet elevation．Because there was lots of “silver”named towns at the time，the founding fathers suggested Leadville．
18．Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful”after being inspired by the view from Pikes Peak．
19．Hundreds of thousands of（几十万，无数）valentines are re－mailed each year from Loveland．
20．Fountain，has the distinction of being the United States’millennium（太平盛世，一千年）city because it best symbolizes the overall composition of America．Fountain is the most accurate representation of the American “melting pot”．Fountain was chosen after a Queens College sociologist crunched Census Bureau statistics in an effort to find the one city in the country that best represented the population make－up of the United States．
21．Pueblo is the only city in America with four living recipients of the Medal of Honor．
22．The tallest building in Colorado is the Republic Plaza at 57stories high，in Denver．
23．Every year Denver host the worlds largest Rodeo，the Western Stock show．
24．Denver has the largest city park system in the nation with 205parks in City limits and 20，000Acres of parks in the nearby mountains．
25．Dove Creek is the “Pinto Bean”capital of the world．
26．The tallest sand dune［（由风吹积而成的）沙丘］in America is in Great Sand Dunes National Monument outside of Alamosa．This bizarre 46，000－acre landscape of 700－foot sand peaks was the creation of ocean waters and wind more than one million years ago．
27．The World’s First Rodeo was held on July 4th，1869in Deer Trail．
28．Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike explored the southwest portion of the Louisiana Territory in 1806and though he never climbed the peak that bears his name，he did publish a report that attracted a lot of interest to the area．
29．The slogan（口号，标语）of “Pikes Peak or Bust”，painted across many of the prairie schooners，was born at a time as fortune hunters headed west．Although only a handful of those who flocked to the region ever found gold．
30．At 14，110feet above sea level over 400，000people ascend（攀登，上升）Pikes Peak each year．
31．The aptly（适当地，适宜地）named town of Twin Lakes lays adjacent（邻近的，接近的）two natural lakes at the foot of Colorado’s highest Fourteener，Mt．Elbert．
32．The Colorado Rockies are part of the North American Cordillera，which stretches 3，000miles from Alaska，through western Canada and the United States，into northern Mexico．The centerpieces of this dramatic uplift are the peaks over 14，000feet，or “Fourteeners”，as they are affectionately（挚爱地，亲切地）referred to by climbers．There are 52Fourteeners in Colorado．
33．Rocky Ford has been dubbed the “melon capital of the world”．
34．The Yampa River below the northwest town of Craig holds northern pike in the 20－pound range，while the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan rivers are prime spots for trout fishing．
35．Colorado has the highest mean altitude of all the states．
36．Mesa Verde features an elaborate（精心制作的，详细阐述的）four－story city carved in the cliffs by the Ancestral Pueblo people between 600and 1300A．D．The mystery surrounding this ancient cultural landmark is the sudden disappearance of the thousands of inhabitants who created the more than 4，000identified structures．
37．Colorado has more microbreweries per capita than any other state．
38．The Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington dates back to 1905，****** it the oldest wooden merry－go－round in the United States．It is the only wooden carousel（喧闹的酒会）in America still with its original paint．
39．The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has been in continuous operation since 1881and has appeared in more than a dozen movies including How the West Was Won（1963）and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid（1969）．
