Morrison
Morrison is a small town of about 400 souls nestled in the Front Range foothills of the Denver Metropolitan Area in the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is located 12 miles southeast of Denver in Jefferson County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 407 residents
- Description: town in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Morrison Springs”, “Morrison, CO”, and “Morrison, Colorado”
- Postal code: 80465
Places of Interest
Highlights include Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Morrison Natural History Museum.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Theater building
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is an open-air amphitheater near Morrison, Colorado, approximately ten miles southwest of Denver. It is owned and operated by the city of Denver.
Morrison Natural History Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Morrison Natural History Museum is a natural history museum located in Morrison, Colorado. The exhibits include several dinosaur fossils that were found nearby.
Colorado Music Hall of Fame
Museum
Colorado Music Hall of Fame is a nonprofit in Colorado, United States founded in 2011 with a mission to promote and support Colorado’s music community.
Morrison
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Denver Area, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.6536° or 39° 39′ 13″ northLongitude
-105.1911° or 105° 11′ 28″ westPopulation
407Elevation
5,764 feet (1,757 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MJEOpen location code
85FPMR35+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 151408598OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Morrison” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موريسون”
- Basque: “Morrison”
- Catalan: “Morrison”
- Cebuano: “Morrison”
- Chechen: “Моррисон”
- Chinese: “Morrison”
- Chinese: “莫里森”
- Dutch: “Morrison”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده موريسون, الولايات المتحدة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موريسون”
- French: “Morrison”
- German: “Morrison”
- Gilaki: “مؤريسن (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “مؤريسن”
- Haitian: “Morrison, Kolorado”
- Haitian: “Morrison”
- Hungarian: “Morrison”
- Italian: “Morrison”
- Japanese: “モリソン”
- Kazakh: “Моррисон”
- Kirghiz: “Моррисон”
- Ladin: “Morrison”
- Latin: “Morrison”
- Mazanderani: “موریسون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morrison”
- Newari: “मोरिसन (कोलोर्याडो)”
- Newari: “मोरिसन, कोलोर्याडो”
- Newari: “मोरिसन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morrison”
- Norwegian: “Morrison”
- Persian: “موریسون، کلرادو”
- Persian: “موریسون”
- Polish: “Morrison”
- Portuguese: “Morrison”
- Romanian: “Morrison, Colorado”
- Serbian: “Морисон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morrison, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morrison”
- South Azerbaijani: “موریسون، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “موریسون”
- Spanish: “Morrison”
- Swedish: “Morrison, Colorado”
- Swedish: “Morrison”
- Tatar: “Моррисон”
- Ukrainian: “Моррісон”
- Uzbek: “Morrison”
- Uzbek: “Моррисон”
- Volapük: “Morrison”
- Welsh: “Morrison, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Morrison”
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