In Colorado a 100 mile drive from Greeley or Denver to the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park , you will experience as many eco-climate zones, animal and plant species as if you were to drive a 1,500 mile journey north to the Arctic circle. The climate ranges in Colorado are more varied, for its land area size, than almost any other geographical area in the world. Not only do temperatures vary greatly, but the amount of moisture varies, even more so, causing several different ecological adaptation systems by plants and animals. Plains A harsh, arid climate zone where everything adapts or it perishes.
Temperature extremes can vary widely in a very short period of time.
But for those who like wide open expanses this is the best place in Colorado. Foothills Nestled up against the mountains on there east side, sufficient rainfall and snow runoff to form a beautiful, and lush country side. Weather is temperate along most of the Front Ranges foothills. There are three ecological zones that make up the southern Rocky Mountains Alpine - the highest of the highest, here you feel you are on the top of the world. A harsh cold, and surprisingly almost a desert-like climate even though much of the moisture falls in this zone as it keeps very little of snow and rain fall for its own use, due its steep mountain sides.