Official Name: | Grant, Colorado |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | Counties |
Subdivision Name2: | Park[1] |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 39.4597°N -105.6617°W |
Elevation Ft: | 8606 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code[2] |
Postal Code: | 80448 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 204726 |
Grant is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Park County, Colorado, United States.
The community is located in foothills of the Front Range in the upper valley of the North Fork South Platte River, approximately 6miles east of Kenosha Pass. It sits along U.S. Route 285 approximately 40miles southwest of Denver. It consists largely of a retired general store, post office, and surrounding houses and trailers along the south side of the highway and along the north side of the river. The Grant Post Office has the ZIP Code 80448.[2] Grant is located at the mouth of Geneva Creek where it descends southward from the Front Range. County Road 62 follows the creek northward to Guanella Pass, leading to Georgetown in the canyon of Clear Creek.
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Grant has a warm-summer humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.