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Places worth the detour in Colorado

Detourmap lists 154 places in Colorado, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Mesa Verde National Park. 134 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature83 Archaeological71
Places
154
Oldest
Keota 1880
Little known
134 of 154
Share of United States
4%

Colorado 154

The 120 best known of 154. The other 34 are on the map and on the United States pages.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Colorado?

Mesa Verde National Park, 20th century. U.S. national park in Colorado. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Colorado?

154: 83 nature & landscapes and 71 archaeological & historic sites. 134 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Colorado?

Keota, dated to 1880. 14 of the 154 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Colorado here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Colorado if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Colorado is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.