Snow totals: Several areas in Colorado hammered with more than a foot of spring snow
Snow weighs down branches on trees bordering Acacia Park in Colorado Springs Saturday morning.
Doug Fitzgerald
The Centennial State received a late-season snowstorm that began Friday and dropped wet, heavy snow into Saturday.
Here are 24-hour snow totals from across the state as of 6 p.m. Saturday, according to National Weather Service snowfall reports.
- Air Force Academy: 13 inches
- Alma: 17 inches
- Aspen Park: 15.5 inches
- Aspen Springs: 18.6 inches
- Aurora 7.5 inches
- Berthoud Pass: 15.6 inches
- Black Hawk: 11 inches
- Black Forest: 18.2 inches
- Boulder: 12.5 inches
- Canon City: 10 inches
- Cascade: 14 inches
- Castle Rock: 14.5 inches
- Colorado Springs: 12 inches
- Copper Mountain: 16.8 inches
- Crescent Village: 13 inches
- Cripple Creek: 20 inches
- Crook: 8 inches
- Denver International Airport: 2.3 inches
- Elbert: 15 inches
- Elizabeth: 15 inches
- Estes Park: 14 inches
- Evergreen: 10.3 inches
- Fairplay: 17.7 inches
- Florissant: 15.5 inches
- Fountain: 10.5 inches
- Franktown: 9 inches
- Genesee: 17 inches
- Golden: 14.5 inches
- Highlands Ranch: 8.5 inches
- Ken Caryl: 17.7 inches
- Lafayette: 5.7 inches
- Larkspur: 6 inches
- Leadville: 9.8 inches
- Longmont: 5 inches
- Louisville: 6.5 inches
- Manitou Springs: 10.6 inches
- Monument: 17.5 inches
- Nederland: 16.5 inches
- Peterson Air Force Base: 10.3 inches
- Ponderosa Park: 13 inches
- Pueblo: 5.5 inches
- Pueblo West: 7.5 inches
- St. Mary’s Glacier: 18 inches
- Steamboat Springs: 6 inches
- Winter Park: 7.3 inches
- Woodland Park: 16 inches
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