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Colorado’s Front Range is where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains in sudden geological uplift. Rolling hills are upended into snow-covered peaks and the change makes for a stunning panoramic view and rare ecological setting.
Roughly from Boulder in the south to Fort Collins and Wyoming in the north, the Front Range is Colorado’s most populous area and where nature, agriculture, recreation and industry collide. It's also home to Rocky Mountain National Park, 400sq/mi of America’s most scenic tundra, forests, alpine lakes and high mountain roads.
The Front Range is also home to historic and earthy mining towns, many which are linked by the Peak-to-Peak Scenic Byway which stretches from the I-70 to Rocky Mountain National Park along the eastern slope of Continental Divide.
Boulder is the southern bookend of the Front Range. Its iconic Flatiron mountains provide one of the most dynamic backdrops in Colorado and help frame this dynamic, active and progressive town noted for its liberal flair, open space and the nation's most successful pedestrian mall - and a location for "Catch and Release" (2006).
The northern bookend is Fort Collins, a scenic and recreation-rich college town with amazing access to the white-water fury of the Cache la Poudre National Wild and Scenic River and the Cache la Poudre Scenic Byway is 76 miles of rivers and canyons and a gateway to the great wilderness of northern Colorado.
The land between is a sprawling mix of historic towns and rural areas jostling for space with new suburban development and oil and gas rigs. But no matter where you are on the Front Range, the backdrop of the Rockies gives a definitive and unique sense of place.
Photos Shoot Colorado, Boulder County Film Commission.
