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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.
View of the lower Poudre Canyon west of Teds Place and below the Narrows. The Poudre Canyon is a narrow verdant canyon, approximately 40 miles (64 km) long, on the upper Cache la Poudre River (called the "Poudre" for short, which locals pronounce as "Pooder") in Larimer County, Colorado in the United States.
Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city is the fourth most populous city in Colorado. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in ...
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 ...
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 ...
North Fork Cache la Poudre River; North Fork Little Thompson River ... South Fork Cache la Poudre River; Spring Creek (Fort Collins, Colorado) Spruce Creek (Larimer ...
The North Fork Cache la Poudre River (locally called the North Fork) is a tributary of the Cache la Poudre River, approximately 59.2 miles (95.3 km) long, [2] in north central Colorado in the United States. It drains a mountainous area of north central Larimer County northwest of Fort Collins on the western side of the Laramie Foothills.
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.