Town (pop., 2000: 4,531), west-central Colorado, U.S. Located in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver , it was founded as a resort town in 1962 and built in the style of an Alpine village. The skiable terrain around Vail Mountain extends for 15 sq mi (39 sq km), making Vail the largest ski resort in ...

State (pop., 2000: 4,301,261), west-central U.S. Bordered by Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Utah, it covers 104,100 sq mi (269,619 sq km); its capital is Denver . Lying astride the Rocky Mountains , the state has three physiographic regions: the plains, a semiarid segment of ...