18 Facts About Glenwood Springs

Glenwood Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Garfield County, Colorado, United States.

Glenwood Springs is located at the confluence of the Roaring Fork River and the Colorado River, threading together the Roaring Fork Valley and a series of smaller towns up and down the Colorado River.

Glenwood Springs is a historic destination for vacationers with diverse natural amenities, most particularly the hot springs.

Centuries the area that is Glenwood Springs was populated by Indigenous people before the colonization of the Americas.

Glenwood Springs was one of the first places in the United States to have electric lights.

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Later, a dam was built in Glenwood Springs Canyon, providing water for the Shoshone power plant.

Glenwood Springs is located in the narrow mountain valleys that host the confluence of the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River.

Glenwood Springs has experienced several mudslides throughout its history, a threat mitigated somewhat by public works.

Glenwood Springs is considered a walkable town by PBS and Walking Magazine, including in the Walking Town Hall of Fame.

Glenwood Springs has a generally continental steppe climate, much more consistently stable than that of the Front Range and most of Colorado, though still decidedly continental and prone to periods of extreme weather.

In 1904, apples and peaches from the nearby town of Silt won first place at the St Louis World's Fair, and strawberries did so well in Garfield County that Glenwood Springs first hosted the Strawberry Days Festival in 1898, which is Colorado's oldest festival and the oldest continuously held civic celebration west of the Mississippi River.

Glenwood Springs is the principal city of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Glenwood Springs' economy has centered on hospitality for vacationers since its foundation, unlike many of Colorado's mountain towns, which were generally settled for mining or railroad purposes.

In 2020, Glenwood Springs was locally installing 140 miles of fiber-optic networking to serve the city as a participating member of Project THOR, an initiative by the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments to bring networking to towns throughout northwest Colorado.

Glenwood Springs is known for outdoor recreation, today joined by cultural facilities and the emergence of Glenwood Springs and the Roaring Fork Valley as a whole as a gastronomical destination for foodies.

The waters of the Roaring Fork flowing through Glenwood Springs proper are "Gold Medal" fishing waters, formally so designated by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Glenwood Springs is home to a 9-hole golf course referred to by locals as "The Hill" and is within driving distance of mountain golf.

Glenwood Springs Caverns Adventure Park is a moderate-sized amusement park aimed at visitors of all ages.