Monday is Colorado Day—the anniversary of the day Colorado was admitted to the United States. In celebration, TheDenverChannel.com has publishedsome facts about the Colorado state flag.
The flag as it appears today was adopted in 1911 by an act of the state’s General Assembly.
The blue outer stripes are meant to represent Colorado’s beautiful blue skies. The middle white stripe represents the snowcapped Rocky Mountains. The red of the C in the center represents the red dirt found throughout the state. Filling the open space inside the letter “C” is a golden disk. This gold circle represents the hundreds of days of yearly sunshine enjoyed on average by the state.
The red and blue of the flag are the same shades of those colors that appear in the flag of the United States. Thus, the Colorado flag has its own flavor, yet echoes the flag of the nation to which the state belongs.
