The Colorado River travels over 1,400 miles, from the Rockies to Mexico, and supplies water to over 40 million people in the western U.S. and Mexico. Due to drought and increased usage the river has been under tremendous pressure over the last few decades and the water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead are at record lows. With the river being in the news so much recently, we wanted to go into the Rockies and see where the Colorado River begins. And we mean where it really begins.

We drove Colorado State Route 14 into the Rocky Mountains before driving down Long Draw Road, a 13 mile dirt road that is known for the amount of moose in the area. At the end of the road we reached La Poudre Pass, the Never Summer Mountains, the Continental Divide, and Rocky Mountain National Park, where we walked the rest of the way to the valley where the Colorado River begins.

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