Giving to the country the crown jewel of american splendor, Rocky Mountain national park. For over a century visionaries helped to settle the high plains of colorado, described by ian frazier as a heroic place an expansive splendid isolation with unparalleled sense of space and generations of pioneers. This is colorado. From west to east and north to south, the beauty, heritage and vitality of colorado calls and beckons our nation and the world to those looking and longing for a place to call home, to live and work, to visit and vacation. Our love for colorado drives us to be better stewards of the land to reach for solutions to great challenges and to find optimism in every vale and valley. For generations, we have challenged our sons and daughters to always look up, look up to that great Rocky Mountain horizon as every young state and our ever hopeful attitude lives peak to peak. The honor of living in the west, a land of opportunity and new beginnings. It is this constant drive for