Colorado Word Search
Colorado is the highest state by average elevation and joined the union in 1876. The words cover mountains, animals, plants, and a handful of cities and parks, good company for a school geography unit or a hiker between trips.
Colorado word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- aspen
- canyon
- denver
- elk
- marmot
- peak
- river
- ski
- snow
- trout
Colorado word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- aspen
- boulder
- canyon
- columbine
- denver
- durango
- elk
- gold mine
- marmot
- peak
- river
- rockies
- ski
- snow
- trout
Colorado word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- aspen
- avalanche
- boulder
- canyon
- columbine
- denver
- durango
- elk
- gold mine
- marmot
- mesa verde
- mountain
- peak
- pikes peak
- river
- rockies
- sand dunes
- ski
- snow
- trout
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Words in the Colorado word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- snow
- Colorado's high country can collect several hundred inches each winter.
- ski
- Sliding downhill on snow, done at dozens of Colorado resorts.
- elk
- A large antlered deer; Colorado holds the biggest herds.
- peak
- Colorado has more than fifty summits above fourteen thousand feet.
- river
- The Colorado, Rio Grande and Arkansas rivers all begin here.
- trout
- Cold mountain streams hold the native greenback cutthroat trout.
- canyon
- The Black Canyon of the Gunnison has steep dark walls.
- aspen
- A white-barked tree whose leaves turn gold in September.
- denver
- Colorado's capital, sitting about a mile above sea level.
- marmot
- A stout burrowing rodent that whistles from high rock piles.
- boulder
- A city at the foot of the red sandstone Flatirons.
- rockies
- The Rocky Mountains run north to south through Colorado.
- durango
- A southwest Colorado town with a working steam railroad.
- gold mine
- A dig for gold; Colorado's 1859 rush pulled in miners.
- columbine
- Colorado's state flower, a blue and white mountain bloom.
- mountain
- Raised land; Colorado averages higher than any other state.
- avalanche
- A mass of snow sliding fast down a steep slope.
- sand dunes
- Great Sand Dunes National Park holds the tallest US dunes.
- pikes peak
- A famous fourteen-thousand-foot summit west of Colorado Springs.
- mesa verde
- A park protecting cliff dwellings built by Ancestral Puebloans.
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