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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.
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 [m] South Platte River: 4,959 km 2 1,915 mi 2: 4,587 km 2 1,771 mi 2: 92.5% Bear Creek Basin: endorheic basin: 4,896 km 2 1,890 mi 2
The Cache la Poudre Wilderness is federally-protected area administered by the U.S. Forest Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado .
Map of the Missouri River watershed The White River flowing into the Missouri River and coloring it with clay. Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation.
It flows directly past the communities of Brighton and Fort Lupton, and is joined in succession by Saint Vrain Creek, the Little Thompson River, the Big Thompson River, and the Cache la Poudre River, which it receives just east of Greeley.
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 ...