Colorado Front Range
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The Front Range is a mountain range in the United States on the extreme eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, and on the western edge of the Great Plains. It runs roughly north-south, from south-central Wyoming to the center of Colorado.

The tallest mountain in the Front Range is Long's Peak.

The term is also taken as a collective reference to the populated areas of Colorado on the plains just east of the range, which contain the majority of the population of the state.

In this latter sense, the Front Range communities include (in a roughly north-to-south order):

• Fort Collins
• Greeley
• Loveland
• Longmont
• Boulder
• Denver and it suburbs
• Castle Rock
• Colorado Springs
• Pueblo

The term in this sense is sometimes taken to extend southward past the mountain range itself, to the southern edge of the state and to include:

• Walsenburg
• Trinidad

See also

• Colorado Eastern Plains
• Colorado Western Slope

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