Cache la Poudre River Cache ta (l'oucfre {}?Jver Trails Museums P;'lt'ks Environmental Education FACTS National Heritage Area History Sighc· , Wildlife f)ui;;l:s ui !>1•:(;c";t The Poudre River is 126 miles long, of which 45 miles is in the designated heritage area. Further information

The Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area was Visit us online at established in 1996/ with the Cache La Poudre River www.PoudreHeritage.org ~~ Corrido. Follow us on Cache ta Colorado's only designated wild and For additional information on places to see and things scenic river - 76 miles designated in 1986. to do within the PHA visit the following: The river was named by fur trappers who had buried Colorado Welcome Center at Fort Collins supplies and gunpowder in a large pit near the river in (Heritage Area Administrative Offices) www.colorado.com/colorado-official-state-welcome­ 1825. The French-speaking trappers referred to center/colorado-welcome-center-fort-collins this spot as Cache la Poudre - the hiding place of the powder. Poudre Learning Center (Heritage Area Headquarters) www.PLCoutdoors.org The Poudre River drains an area of 1,900 square miles. Greeley Museums www.greeleymuseums.com The Poudre River headwaters are at Milner Pass in Rocky Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Mountain National Park, located west of the Alpine Visitors www.fcmod.org Center on Trail Ridge Road at elevation I0, 756 feet. Town of Windsor Museum at Boardwalk Park www.windsorgov.com/artandheritage The confluence of the Poudre and South Platte rivers is Colorado Parks and Wildlife about 5 miles east of Greeley at elevation 4,600 feet. www.wildlife.state.co.us Poudre RiverTrail During the I920's , Ralph Parshall, an employee of www.poudretrail.org the Fort Collins Irrigation Investigations Unit of the USDA, developed the Parshall Flume - a water flow Fort Collins Convention & Visitors Bureau www.visitftcollins.com measurement device used around the world today. Colorado Department of Transportation Delph Carpenter, a Greeley water attorney, helped www.codot.gov/travel/scenic-byways litigate the Laramie River lawsuit with Wyoming which determined diversion amounts into the Cache la Poudre River. He utilized this experience to lead the seven Colorado River Basin states in establishing the Colorado River Compact in 1922 as the mechanism to divide waters among the upper and lower Colorado River basin states.

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