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Colorado is a spawling Western state whose Rocky Mountain spine of towering snowcapped peaks is bracketed by a vast prairie on the east and a dry, windswept desert on the west. To the south, mystery reigns.

All Colorado provides postcard images. If a picture is worth a thousand words, pictures of many Colorado scenes are worth a thesaurus. Yet even these images cannot convey the beauty, tranquility, and almost spiritual feel that can overcome mere mortals who escape into the millions of acres of Colorado plains, mountains and deserts.

Before most people get to the Rocky Mountains,they cross or fly over Colorado's eastern plains. Running right up to the mountains, the plains are as flat as a pancake, and full of wheat, tractors, and tornadoes.

North of the mining towns of Colorado's central Rockies, and just northwest of the city of Boulder, is Rocky Mountain National Park. The park preserves the pristine beauty and the flora and fauna of the Rockies as they were before settlers began pouring into Colorado during the 1800s.