Welcome to our Colorado Relocation Resource Center! We hope you'll find some interesting information about Colorado's state history, places to visit as well as housing and demographic statistics and visit our referral links to state and city governments.

Local Attractions and Points of Interest

This lovely rocky mountain state is probably best known for its ski resorts including Vail, Aspen and Telluride. For skiing reservations and information, you may wish to visit the Colorado Ski Resorts web page.

The Denver Art Museum, Denver Botanical Gardens and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are three attractions tourists visiting Denver won't want to miss.

The Denver Art Museum features a collection of Western and regional works as its cornerstone. The museum’s collections include more than 60,000 works of art. These collections include African, American Indian, Asian, European, Western American, Spanish Colonial, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic and Modern and Contemporary art works.

The Denver Botanical Gardens exhibits include twenty-three acres of outdoor and indoor gardens displaying plants native to the desert, plains, mountain foothills, and alpine zones. There's a traditional Japanese garden, herb garden, water garden, fragrance garden, and a garden inspired by the art of Monet. Even in winter, the dome-shaped, concrete-and-Plexiglas Conservatory houses thousands of species of tropical and subtropical plants.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science features an extensive collection of gems and minerals, a pair of Egyptian mummies and an outstanding fossil collection. This museum focuses on six areas of science which are anthropology, health science, geology, paleontology, space science, and zoology. Some of the more popular exhibitions include the "Space Odyssey" which relates contemporary stories of space exploration, the "Prehistoric Journey" which traces the history of life on earth through 3.5 billion years and the "Hall of Life" which focuses on the science of the human body.

Colorado State Flower

The official state flower of Colorado is the Columbine. This white and lavender flower was adopted as the official state flower on April 4, 1899 by an act of the General Assembly.

Historical Facts, Housing Data and Demographics

Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876. Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau have reported the 2006 Colorado population to be 4,753,377. The 2005 housing units was reportedly 2,053,178 and the 2000 home ownership rate was calculated to be 67.3%, slightly higher than the national average of 66.2%. The Median value of owner-occupied housing units in 2000 was established at $166,600.

For more Colorado housing information, you can contact one of these real estate agents for assistance.