Fort Collins is a city in Northern Colorado along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 50 miles south of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Fort Collins is the home of the Colorado State University. The population is about 100,000+. It is a beautiful city with lots of city parks, where you find people taking advantage of all of them.

It has a trail system of over 13 miles. This is used by bicyclers, walkers, joggers, and a few skate boarders. Everyone seems to respect the different users of the trails. Here are pictures of the trails. Picture 1. Picture 2. There are two trail systems. One is called Springcreek trail, and the other the Poudre trail. They are adding new sections to the trails each year. Eventually they are going to Greeley, to Loveland, and back to Fort Collins.

I usually walk about 3 miles almost every morning, depending on what else I have to do, like playing golf, or going on side trips. I drive my car to a parking lot, walk about 1-1/2 miles and then back. The next day, I will drive down the trail system to another parking lot and walk back to the place that I had stopped the day before. I usually walk the whole system during the summer in 5 complete round trips.

The trails are marked off in 1/4 mile sections. These quarter mile sections are marked so if there is an accident, or someone gets sick, help will know exactly where to go to render aid. Where there are no businesses close by for a telephone, they have call boxes.

The Cache La Poudre river source comes from the mountains north of Fort Collins, and runs through the city. You can do river rafting on this river. Here is a picture of rafting on the Cache La Poudre. This picture gives the story of how the river came to be named.

Just north of the city there is a Budweiser plant. They give tours daily. This is a training center for the beautiful Clydesdale horses. They have had a new colt, which is only a few week old, each year that we have visited the Travelers Center at the plant.

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