10 Ways Colorado Has Quietly Become The Coolest State In America

Rocky Mountain National Park for the win!

Pictured are the incredible Book Cliffs, which are located near Grand Junction and span nearly 200 miles.

Long before Colorado became a state, the region was a hotbed of activity. Eons ago, dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures roamed the terrain. In early human history, Native American tribes like the Ancestral Puebloans, who created the iconic Mesa Verde, called this land home. Within the last few centuries, the area attracted some of the earliest miners.

You haven't lived until you've heard your favorite band play at Red Rocks (home to the world's best acoustics, in my opinion)!

How did we re-invent fast food? Chipotle, Q'doba, and Noodles, to name a few of our fast-casual brainchildren.

Okay, so maybe it wasn't that last minute, but we are the only place to have ever won an Olympic bid and then changed our mind and decline it later. The reason? A lack of funding and negative environmental impact. While it may not be an innovation per se, we do think it’s pretty cool that we had the progressive foresight to take these hurdles into consideration before diving into a project out of blind excitement.

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The tax revenue from marijuana sales has been used to fund human services and education, public health and environmental projects, and local affairs, so it's beneficial to all, regardless of whether or not you personally partake.

When we have so many awesome breweries in our neck of the woods, why wouldn't we want to just sip and enjoy them with our meals?!

...and it isn't these killing machines! Coloradans are definitely dog people.