By Mike Rosso The Chalk Cliffs State Trout Rearing Unit sits at the base of majestic Mt. Princeton, near Chalk Creek in Nathrop. Originally a private trout farm, the state of Colorado began operating the facility in 1948 to provide catchable trout to waters throughout the Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado. Its stocking area reaches from Loveland to Trinidad, and out to the Kansas border and it produces about 700,000 ten-inch trout per year. Fish under five inches long are fed by hand, but they use a truck-mounted feed blower to feed all fish over five inches. For ...
