Visit The Poudre Canyon

courtesy of Jim Frazier

The Poudre Canyon is a narrow verdant canyon, approximately 40 mi 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. The canyon is a glacier-formed valley through the foothills of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains northwest of Fort Collins.

The canyon begins in northern Rocky Mountain National Park, at an elevation of approximately 9,000 feet, where the Poudre descends from near the continental divide. It winds gently to the northeast, then east, descending the slope of the Colorado Tertiary Pediment, emerging through the southern end of the Laramie Foothills north of Bellvue at an elevation of approximately 5,000 feet.

Jamie Emerson was at the Poudre Canyon, read about his adventure in his post about the Poudre Canyon.