Introduction
The second largest city in Colorado, Colorado Springs boasts a pleasant climate and an inspiring balance of leisure and industry. Learn more about or start your own Colorado corporation.
In 2004, the population of the metro area, including all of El Paso County, was estimated to be 554,574 – an increase of more than seven percent over the 2000 census figures. Additionally, the region attracts seven million visitors annually. With two hundred and fifty days of sunshine annually in Colorado Springs, residents and visitors enjoy year-round outdoor recreation, mild summer evenings, and the intermittent gift of warm days even in winter.
Situated at the edge of the Rocky Mountains, where the eastern plains meet the Front Range, and sheltered from Colorado’s most extreme weather by the mountains (including Pikes Peak, which, with its summit at 14,110 feet above sea level qualifies as one of Colorado’s famed Fourteeners) to the west and the Monument Divide to the north, Colorado Springs enjoys an average humidity of sixty-three percent in the morning and forty percent in the afternoon. Daytime high temperatures in July tend toward the low 80s. January low temperatures, averaging about thirteen degrees Fahrenheit, usually register in the very early morning hours. With an elevation of 6035 feet above sea level, the city receives about thirty-seven inches of snowfall per year, with the largest percentage of that falling in March. The annual melted precipitation total is between seventeen and nineteen inches.