Roaring Fork Watershed
Roaring Fork Conservancy serves the Roaring Fork Watershed, which extends from the river’s headwaters near Independence Pass to its confluence with the Colorado River at Glenwood Springs, 70 miles (110 km) downstream. The river flows through Aspen and is joined further downstream by two major tributaries: the Fryingpan River in Basalt and the Crystal River just downstream of Carbondale. The Roaring Fork Watershed (1,453 square miles) is located in west-central Colorado in Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield, and a small portion of Gunnison counties (see Figure 1.1). It comprises an area of high mountainous terrain and deep intervening valleys, with altitudes ranging from 5,717 feet (1,743 m) to 14,235 feet (4,339 m). The Roaring Fork River is the second largest tributary of the Colorado River in the state, yielding an average of almost 1,000,000 acre feet (1.2 km3) per year.
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