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The name, Cache la Poudre (French for 'Hide the Powder'), [5] is a corruption of the original Cache à la Poudre, [6] or "cache of powder". It refers to an incident in the 1820s when French trappers, caught by a snowstorm, were forced to bury part of their gunpowder along the banks of the river.
Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow") La Center; La Crosse; La Grande; Lamont; La Push (Clallam County, along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula. Home to the Quileute Indian Tribe. From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon) Laurier (Named after Sil Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister)
La Poudre Pass (elevation 10,184 ft (3,104 m)), a high mountain pass, is located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States.. The pass straddles the Continental Divide, and separates the headwaters of La Poudre Pass Creek, which joins the Cache la Poudre River and eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico, from the headwaters of the Colorado River, which drains into the ...
The Cache La Poudre River Corridor National Heritage Area extends along the flood plain of the Cache La Poudre River in Colorado, US.It is a federally designated National Heritage Area, [1] extending for 45 miles (72 km) from Larimer County in the west where the river emerges from the Rocky Mountains, and ends near Greeley, Colorado, just before its confluence with the South Platte River.
Cache la Poudre River 4,959 km 2 (1,915 mi 2) North Fork Cache la Poudre River; South Fork Cache la Poudre River; Spring Creek; Crow Creek 3,717 km 2 (1,435 mi 2) Bijou Creek 3,612 km 2 (1,395 mi 2) Beaver Creek 2,939 km 2 (1,135 mi 2) Saint Vrain Creek 2,572 km 2 (993 mi 2) Boulder Creek 1,160 km 2 (448 mi 2) [2] Left Hand Creek; Big Thompson ...
The South Fork Cache la Poudre River is a 27.0-mile-long (43.5 km) [2] tributary of the Cache la Poudre River in Larimer County, Colorado. The river's source is in the Mummy Range of Rocky Mountain National Park .
In May 2003 a 100 ft (30 m) section of the ditch breached about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of La Poudre Pass, causing the water to cascade down the slopes and into the Colorado River. The flood left a visible scar on the mountainside: 20,000 trees were downed and 47,600 cubic yards of debris ended up in the Lulu Creek and the headwaters of the ...
Laporte is located on the Cache la Poudre River northwest of Fort Collins, close to where the river emerges from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. U.S. Route 287 runs along the northern edge of the community, leading southeast 6 miles (10 km) to Fort Collins and northwest 58 miles (93 km) to Laramie, Wyoming.