Fifty Reasons to Be Thankful for Colorado

Thanksgiving makes us all sentimental about our home state, and we felt it was our duty to show all the transplants what to really be thankful for in Colorado. With everything from landscapes to sunsets, fixies to craft beer, mountains to Broncos fans, city skylines to street-art...and legal cannabis, of course,...

By Lindsey Bartlett

November 26, 2015

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Thanksgiving makes us all sentimental about our home state, and we felt it was our duty to show all the transplants what to really be thankful for in Colorado. With everything from landscapes to sunsets, fixies to craft beer, mountains to Broncos fans, city skylines to street-art...and legal cannabis, of course, we pretty much have it made. Here are fifty photographic reasons — the equivalent of 50,000 words! — to appreciate Colorado this Thanksgiving.

Lindsey Bartlett is a writer, photographer, artist, Denver native and weed-snob. Her work has been published in Vanity Fair, High Times and Leafly, to name a few.

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