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Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Great Plains Park
Phone:
+1 303-739-7160

Hours:
Sunday5am - 11pm
Monday5am - 11pm
Tuesday5am - 11pm
Wednesday5am - 11pm
Thursday5am - 11pm
Friday5am - 11pm
Saturday5am - 11pm


The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862. This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood that extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory. Immense snowfalls in the mountains of the far western United States caused more flooding in Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora, Mexico the following spring and summer as the snow melted. The event was capped by a warm intense storm that melted the high snow load. The resulting snow-melt flooded valleys, inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals, and ruined fields. It has been described as the worst disaster ever to strike California.
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