GC67Y55 Colorado Puzzle #11
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Barasaur @ | Hide Date: 12/08/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.575 W104° 56.275 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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The word 'colorado' means 'colored' or 'colored red' in Spanish. The Colorado state was named after the Colorado River, which Spanish explorers named 'Río Colorado' (meaning 'colored river') for the red silt the river carried from the mountains

Colorado is the only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1000 meters elevation. Its lowest point, 3,317 feet (1,011 m) in elevation is the highest low elevation point of any state, and is higher than the highest elevation points of 18 states. Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet

The United States federal government owns more than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.

The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly 1 mile high above sea level

I am placing some caches around that will be mostly P & G for everyone to enjoy.

Additional Waypoints

06/22/2019 By Spooty
Found it at ~0900.
I came down from Cheyenne just for this, as I'm slowly trying to fill in my calendar with all Mystery/Puzzle caches. This one was a quick find, but I did have to park a distance away and walk to GZ, because of narrow, muddy shoulders. Great puzzle - I could do ones like this (and much harder) all day long.
TNLNSL. TFTC!

04/08/2019 By chuppalloop
Tftc found with artguru20

04/08/2019 By artguru20@gmail.com
Found with chuppalloop. TFTC!

04/06/2019 By BriaTeragram
Dud&Plato had shown me a few of the puzzles in the series that he couldn't figure out. After a bit of looking and thinking I managed to figure out the answers. He had already looked for and logged a bunch of them, but when we went out today he was nice enough to stop at all of the caches so I could sign the logs. It was a pretty nice day out, not too hot and not too cold. If I'd had more time I would have even consider walking the whole way around, but had other things I needed to do today. I had a lot of fun solving the puzzles and looking for the caches. Sad to say we did have one DNF, but we'll try looking again sometime to finish the geoart. TFTC|SL

If there is anything specific to share about any of the caches it will be noted after this point. Cache was in good condition.

04/06/2019 By Dud&Plato
Had this one solved before my last trip, but didn't have enough time to grab it. Made quick work of it today though! Only a few more puzzles remain in the series after this one.... Starting to get close now! Quick find and sign and I was on my way. Cache and log are in great shape. TFTC|SL

08/17/2018 By EstesLynne
I've been solving these "CO" puzzles for quite a while, and today BugRanger and I came out to get our geo-art. This wasn't a particularly hard puzzle, and it definitely was an easy find. TFTC!

08/17/2018 By BugRanger
Caching with EstesLynne. We did the traditional caches last year, then had to return when we figured out the locations of the nearby puzzles -TFTC!

07/12/2018 By fam2go
Solved these before we came up so we knew where we were going. Glad to have another geo art! This one, most of the caches were easy but some weren't there so we replaced them. Don't know how long they have been missing, guess people are just logging finds because we didn't see any DNFs. We were thankful for the ones on the dirt roads or the few that had decent pull offs. Several times we walked a ways from safe parking but some were very scary to even walk to because of the busy roads. We managed to get this series pretty quickly then moved on to the next. Thanks for the art and pointing us in the right direction on some!

05/28/2018 By Edwards654
I have solved a few of these so thought I would grab them while I was in the area. Tftc

12/09/2017 By quinnster212
Found another Colorado cache! Thanks for the cache!