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Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 1,155 at the 2020 United States Census. [5] Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak.
Cripple Creek Historic District [3] is a historic district including Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States and is significant for its gold mining era history. It developed as a gold mining center beginning in 1890, with a number of buildings from that period surviving to this day.
Cripple Creek, Colorado, a statutory city and county seat; Cripple Creek, Virginia, an unincorporated community; Streams in the United States. Cripple Creek (Colorado)
The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad (CC&VNG RR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates seasonal tourist trains between Cripple Creek and the city's outskirts to the south. The railroad uses a revitalized section of the original Midland Terminal Railway and the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad.
Cripple Creek, performed by Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (1929) "Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
Cripple Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Colorado. [2]Cripple Creek was named for the fact livestock frequently became injured crossing the stream. [3]It passes through the city limits of Cripple Creek, Colorado, although portions of the original creekbed are no longer visible due to construction of casinos and parking lots.
Teller County Road 1, shortened to Teller 1, was the first stagecoach route to Cripple Creek and thus it is called County Road 1. [citation needed] It is a paved road that offers diverse views of scenery. For example, along the road are steep mountains and rolling hills where cattle graze.
The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway was a 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railroad operating in the U.S. state of Colorado around the turn of the 20th century. History