ColdHands
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I'm pretty sure on Google Maps it would consider anything East of the Continental Divide as "East" due to the water flow (East to the Mississippi) vs. Western CO on the other side of the divide as the water would run West to the Colorado River, and other Western flowages to the Pacific.
Having lived in CO myself the front range - at least as I remember was usually the areas west of I-25 and along the corridor of 36 to Boulder. Aurora and such weren't really "East" yet - outside the metro area to the East where it gets totally flat definitely. Castle Rock (which was just starting to be built up) and COS were colloquially known to folks living up around Denver as "The Springs". Pueblo was Southern. Durango definitely called the "Four Corners Area", and as you also stated the Western Slope was Grand Junction and the surrounding towns like Fruita. As I recall up by Boulder were in "the Foothills". Up by Greeley and such was Northern Colorado. I will admit that anything that was past about Georgetown on the way to Vail, for instance was simply "in the mountains" or areas were referred to by the largest town/ski resort in the area.
OK, that was probably a lot more detailed than I needed to make it, huh? I guess I was trying to remember and typing as I was thinking about it...
O/T I really miss the mountains!
Colorado location descriptions are detailed, and likely driven as much by climate zones as by geography. But it did occur to me after i posted that that someone that lives on the west side of the mountains might consider everything on the other side as "east." Which would actually include the entire front range and I25 corridor from Fort Collins down to Trinidad.