From Colorado~~Love it and its “ no worries motto”
Colorado
Entered the Union: August 1, 1876 (38) Capital: Denver
Origin of Name: From the Spanish, “colored red” (a reference to the sediment-rich Colorado River)
State Nickname: The Centennial State. (Colorado was admitted to statehood during the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.)
State Motto: Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence)
State Flower: Rocky Mountain Columbine State Bird: Lark Bunting
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce, my favorite Christmas tree and yet you have to have a permit to cut one down limiting the sale of them as well.. Grateful for it really…
State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout State Gem: Aquamarine
State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly State Grass: Blue Grama Grass
State Song: “Where the Columbines Grow" State Folk Dance: Square Dance
National Forests: 11 • National Parks: 11 • State Parks: 44
Famous for: World-Class Skiing, Rocky Mountain National Forest, Pike's Peak, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde Ancient Cliff Village, World's Highest Highway.. Native Americans in Colorado: the Apache, Kiowa, Comanche, and Pawnee roamed the Great Plains; the Ute lived in the Colorado Plateau.
First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706. The U.S. obtained eastern Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the Mexican War.
Colorado has the highest elevation of any state, with more than 1,000 Rocky Mountain peaks over 10,000 ft high and 54 towering above 14,000 ft. Pikes Peak, the most famous of these mountains, was discovered by U.S. Army lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike in 1806.

From Colorado~~Love it and its “ no worries motto”
Colorado
Entered the Union: August 1, 1876 (38) Capital: Denver
Origin of Name: From the Spanish, “colored red” (a reference to the sediment-rich Colorado River)
State Nickname: The Centennial State. (Colorado was admitted to statehood during the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.)
State Motto: Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence)
State Flower: Rocky Mountain Columbine State Bird: Lark Bunting
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce, my favorite Christmas tree and yet you have to have a permit to cut one down limiting the sale of them as well.. Grateful for it really…
State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout State Gem: Aquamarine
State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly State Grass: Blue Grama Grass
State Song: “Where the Columbines Grow" State Folk Dance: Square Dance
National Forests: 11 • National Parks: 11 • State Parks: 44
Famous for: World-Class Skiing, Rocky Mountain National Forest, Pike's Peak, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde Ancient Cliff Village, World's Highest Highway.. Native Americans in Colorado: the Apache, Kiowa, Comanche, and Pawnee roamed the Great Plains; the Ute lived in the Colorado Plateau.
First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706. The U.S. obtained eastern Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the Mexican War.
Colorado has the highest elevation of any state, with more than 1,000 Rocky Mountain peaks over 10,000 ft high and 54 towering above 14,000 ft. Pikes Peak, the most famous of these mountains, was discovered by U.S. Army lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike in 1806.

From Colorado~~Love it and its “ no worries motto”
Colorado
Entered the Union: August 1, 1876 (38) Capital: Denver
Origin of Name: From the Spanish, “colored red” (a reference to the sediment-rich Colorado River)
State Nickname: The Centennial State. (Colorado was admitted to statehood during the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.)
State Motto: Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence)
State Flower: Rocky Mountain Columbine State Bird: Lark Bunting
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce, my favorite Christmas tree and yet you have to have a permit to cut one down limiting the sale of them as well.. Grateful for it really…
State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout State Gem: Aquamarine
State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly State Grass: Blue Grama Grass
State Song: “Where the Columbines Grow" State Folk Dance: Square Dance
National Forests: 11 • National Parks: 11 • State Parks: 44
Famous for: World-Class Skiing, Rocky Mountain National Forest, Pike's Peak, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde Ancient Cliff Village, World's Highest Highway.. Native Americans in Colorado: the Apache, Kiowa, Comanche, and Pawnee roamed the Great Plains; the Ute lived in the Colorado Plateau.
First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706. The U.S. obtained eastern Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the Mexican War.
Colorado has the highest elevation of any state, with more than 1,000 Rocky Mountain peaks over 10,000 ft high and 54 towering above 14,000 ft. Pikes Peak, the most famous of these mountains, was discovered by U.S. Army lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike in 1806.