Roaring River (Colorado)

Roaring River[1]
Mouth Confluence with Fall River
Progression FallBig Thompson
South PlattePlatte
MissouriMississippi
Source elevation 11,519 ft (3,511 m)
Mouth elevation 8,563 ft (2,610 m)

The Roaring River is a 6.5-mile-long (10.5 km)[2] tributary of the Fall River in Larimer County, Colorado. The river's source is Crystal Lake in the Mummy Range of Rocky Mountain National Park The river flows through Lawn Lake before a confluence with the Fall River in Horseshoe Park. The collapse of the Lawn Lake Dam in 1982 scoured the river's channel and deposited an alluvial fan of debris in Horseshoe Park.

References

  1. ^ "Roaring River". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:177616. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 25, 2011

See also