… Colorado treats the [right-to-float] issue differently than many other states. In some, rivers and streambeds are considered public land, but in Colorado and several others, the waters belong to the people while streambeds belong to adjacent landowners. … So, in Colorado the water is public, but not the land under it. Thus, wading, anchoring, and portaging around obstructions on private land may be trespassing. Public access for floating is well established in Colorado. … This creates an uneasy balance between that public right and the rights of private property owners that can only be addressed through a case-by-case mediated process, which was formalized in 2010.