The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend 100 miles (160 km) from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming . The northern extent of this range is the sub-range the Snowy Range . From the northern end of Colorado's Never Summer Mountains , the Medicine Bow mountains extend north from Cameron Pass along the border between Larimer and Jackson counties in Colorado and northward into south central Wyoming. In Wyoming, the range sits west of Laramie , in Albany and Carbon counties to the route of the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Interstate 80 . The mountains often serve as a symbol for the city of Laramie . The range is home to Snowy Range Ski Area .
17-731: The highest peak in the range is Clark Peak (12,960 feet (3,950 m)), located in the Rawah Wilderness along the southern end of the range in Northern Colorado . Much of the range is located within the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming. The highest peak on the Wyoming side is Medicine Bow Peak (12,013 feet (3,662 m)). The range is drained along the western flank by the Michigan and Canadian rivers, tributaries of
34-639: Is 642 hectares (1,590 acres) in extent and hosts facilities for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), the National Dry Deposition Network (NDDN), and AmeriFlux ( Eddy covariance ). This mountain range is also home to some of the remains of a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, operated as United Airlines Flight 409 . The aircraft crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on October 6, 1955, killing all 66 people on board. Clark Peak (Medicine Bow Mountains) Clark Peak
51-427: Is land and 7.2 square miles (19 km ) (0.9%) is water. Jackson County contains the 71,000-acre (290 km ) Colorado State Forest . Jackson County Airport Jackson County Airport Info Bustang's Outrider Service to Muddy Pass OATS (Older Americans Transport Service) As of the census of 2000, there were 1,577 people, 661 households, and 442 families living in the county. The population density
68-472: Is the highest point of Jackson County and the entire drainage basin of the North Platte River . This Colorado state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jackson County, Colorado Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado . As of the 2020 census , the population was 1,379, and it was the fourth least populated in
85-526: Is the highest summit of the Medicine Bow Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America . The prominent 12,960-foot (3,950 m) peak is located in the Rawah Wilderness of Routt National Forest , 6.3 miles (10.1 km) north-northwest ( bearing 342°) of Cameron Pass , Colorado , United States , on the drainage divide between Jackson and Larimer counties . Clark Peak
102-842: The North Platte in North Park . On its eastern flank it is drained by the Laramie River , another tributary of the North Platte. The Medicine Bow Mountains resulted from continental compression during the Laramide Orogeny . Beginning about 70 million years ago, the Rockies began uplifting along thrust faults that broke up the Precambrian granite of Earth's crust . By 50 million years ago, all of Wyoming's major mountain ranges were elevated and
119-627: The 1.78–1.74 billion year old suture between the Wyoming craton and the Yavapai province that formed as North America was assembled, is exposed in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Wildlife abounds in these mountains, with mule deer, elk, moose, black bear, mountain lions, coyotes, marmots, pika, Richardson's ground squirrels, bobcats, and lynx as well as a tremendous variety of birds. Brook and rainbow trout as well as grayling and golden trout are found in
136-428: The age of 18 living with them, 54.90% were married couples living together, 7.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.00% were non-families. 28.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.91. In the county, the population was spread out, with 25.60% under
153-469: The age of 18, 5.40% from 18 to 24, 26.90% from 25 to 44, 29.10% from 45 to 64, and 13.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 101.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.80 males. The median income for a household in the county was $ 31,821, and the median income for a family was $ 37,361. Males had a median income of $ 26,250 versus $ 18,417 for females. The per capita income for
170-509: The area the Ute Tribe gave North Park the name "Bull Pen." Now deer, elk, and cattle vie for the same area. In November 1861, Colorado set up 17 counties for the state, including Larimer County. This was where Jackson County would be carved out of in 1909. Before then, both Grand and Larimer Counties claimed the North Park area. In the beginning, no one paid much attention to North Park because it
187-501: The county seat. But Larimer also claimed this county and it was contested all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court. In 1886 the court decided in favor of Larimer. This did not make the North Park residents very happy and they pushed for their own county until Jackson was formed. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 1,621 square miles (4,200 km ), of which 1,614 square miles (4,180 km )
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#1733085381536204-563: The major basins defined. Rocks exposed along the flanks and peaks of the Medicine Bow Mountains span the Precambrian to modern, with the peaks composed of 2.4-2.0 billion year old Medicine Peak Quartzite. This rock was once a shallow marine sand deposit that has since been compressed and heated during burial, forming the metamorphic rock , quartzite . What may be traces of multicellular animals are preserved in this rock, making it of particular interest to paleontologists . The Cheyenne belt ,
221-604: The south by the Rabbit Ears Range and the Never Summer Mountains , and on the east by the Medicine Bow Mountains . Elevations range from 7,800 to 12,953 feet (3,948 m) above sea level and is home to the head waters of the North Platte River . The term park is derived from parc , the French word for game preserve. At one time North Park was filled with herds of deer, antelope and buffalo. There were so many buffalo in
238-541: The state. The county is named after the United States President Andrew Jackson . The county seat and only municipality in the county is Walden . Most of Jackson County is a high relatively broad intermontane basin known as North Park , which covers 1,613 square miles (4,180 km ). This basin opens north into Wyoming and is rimmed on the west by the Park Range and Sierra Madre Range , on
255-826: The streams. A disjunct population of arctic fairy shrimp (Brachinecta paludosa) has been documented in a few lakes in the northern part of the range. Since 1987, the Glacier Lakes area of the Snowy Range has been home to the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site (GLEES), a field unit of the Rocky Mountain Research Station , United States Forest Service . Areas of scientific inquiry at the site include atmospheric pollutant deposition, forest carbon and water vapor cycling, effect of insect outbreaks, and alpine lake and stream hydrology. The site
272-460: Was 1 person per square mile (0.39 person/km ). There were 1,145 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile (0.39/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 96.20% White , 0.25% Black or African American , 0.76% Native American , 0.06% Asian , 1.46% from other races , and 1.27% from two or more races. 6.53% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 661 households, out of which 29.20% had children under
289-561: Was hunting grounds of the Ute and Arapaho Indians. They fiercely defended these lands and the white settlers were often afraid to venture in. When valuable minerals were discovered in North Park, Grand County claimed it as part of their county because they wanted the revenue it would provide. The residents didn't care much because the county seat for Grand County was closer than the one in Larimer County, and all official business needed to be done at
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