Winter Park, Colorado. Winter Park is a home rule municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The permanent population was 999 at the 2010 census, although with 2,572 housing units within the town limits the seasonal population can be much higher. It is home to the Winter Park Resort, a ski resort owned by the City and County of Denver and managed by Intrawest.
Four Corners Monument is the only place in the United States where you can stand in four states at the same time. It is the spot where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. Thousands of visitors travel to this remote monument each year to say they have been there and done that.
The United States acquired the four corners region from Mexico after the end of the MexicanâAmerican War in 1848. In 1863 Congress created Arizona Territory from the western part of New Mexico Territory. The boundary was defined as a line running due south from the southwest corner of Colorado Territory, which had been created in 1861.