Since today is Colorado’s 134th birthday I thought I’d put together a list of 10 things I certainly didn’t know about CO until now.
1. Colorado was the FIRST state to grant women the right to vote in 1893.
2. Colfax Ave. is the longest continuous street in the US.
3. Colorado has more microbreweries per capita than any other state.
4. (This one is for my grandpa who no doubt haunts this pool every chance he gets) The world’s largest hot springs pool is in Glenwood Springs.
5. In 2006 and 2007, Men’s Health magazine named Denver the “Drunkest City” in the nation.
6. Colorado has more pro-sports teams than any other state. Gee that’s a shock – considering we open our nightly news here with sports news – something I assumed everyone else did until someone from CA corrected me.
7. A guy named Louis Ballast threw a piece of cheese on a hamburger he was grilling at a Denver drive-in in 1944 and the cheeseburger was born.
8. The first permanent structure built in Denver was a saloon.
9. Boulder, CO is the first city in the US to tax itself to help fund open space. In 1967!
10. Denver has the smallest percentage of overweight adults in the US.
Facts came from:
Colorado Travel & Tourism Authority/Wikipedia/Weird Facts/Huffington Post/Denver Press Blog/Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau/Denver Fun Facts & Trivia
