Colorado Is Huge… So Why Does Everyone Live Along One Highway

In this video: • Why a town high in the peaks once looked like the state's obvious future • What a town founded without any mine had that the boomtowns lacked • Why a crash that emptied some mountain towns left others still standing • How a tunnel built for one job ended up doing a very different one • Why the share of people living along the strip is less settled than it sounds This is geography and history read together: the ground, the resources and the decisions that explain why people settle where they do, so that a state's map stops looking like an accident. The channel has nothing to point you to, with no product, no download, no site and no sponsor, so what you get instead is the story itself, built from records and counts, with competing accounts laid side by side for you to weigh.