If you’re new to Colorado, you may have heard the terms “front range” and “western slope”. The front range is everything in the east side the rocky mountains or the continental divide—which includes the more urban and populated areas like Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora, Ft Collin’s, Boulder, etc. The western slope is everything on the west side of the mountains, like Grans Junction, Durango, Mlntrose, Glenwood Springs, Fruita, Telluride, Ouray, etc. We may be biased, but the west side of the s