Headwaters

The Colorado River's headwater is located in Rocky Mountain National Park about 25 mi (40 km). north of Lake Granby at the northern tip of Colorado's Grand County where Jackson County and Larimer County intersect. This is the unique geologic point where the Continental Divide intersects the Colorado River drainage basin to the west and the eastern flowing drainage basins for Jackson County's North Platte River and the Larimer County headwaters of the Laramie River, Cache La Poudre River and the northernmost main branch of the South Platte River. Below Rocky Mountain National Park, the river flows through the Kawuneeche Valley, also part of the Park, into Grand Lake, Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake. By law it can fluctuate no more than one vertical foot, so the Colorado River actually flows into Shadow Mountain Reservoir where it encounters the first of many dams in its journey to the Gulf of California. The physical connection between Shadow Mountain Reservoir and Grand Lake is not the course of the Colorado River, but a logistical piece of a larger trans-basin water storage and delivery project. This is the Colorado-Big Thompson Project that diverts the headwaters of the Colorado River to Colorado's Front Range and Eastern Plains on the other side of the Continental Divide. The next stop on the river's journey, Lake Granby, is used as a reservoir in this same project. Windy Gap Reservoir at the confluence of the Fraser and Colorado Rivers, west of the town of Granby, is another. From there, U.S. Highway 40 roughly parallels the river to the town of Kremmling, where the Blue River joins, before it enters Gore Canyon, to the west.





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