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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 .
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.
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.
SH 67 begins at its southern terminus with State Highway 96 in Wetmore, Colorado. It proceeds north into Fremont County and the city of Florence, where it is signed as Robinson Avenue to State Highway 115 (Main Street) and overlaps the highway for half a mile west before turning north again, signed as Pikes Peak Avenue. The highway crosses the ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Teller County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
The track system begins at Bennett Avenue/5th Street going south out of Cripple Creek, goes past the old Midland Terminal Wye, then over a reconstructed train trestle, continues past historic mines and terminates very near the abandoned Anaconda mining camp. The return trip to Cripple Creek completes a total of 4 miles (6.4 km). [5]
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Track along current Gold Camp Rd, CR 8, 1901. On April 13, 1897, Lucian D. Ross, Thomas Burk, James L. Lindsay, W.T. Doubt and Kurnel R. Babbitt organized the Cripple Creek District Railway Company to operate a 6.25-mile (10.06 km) 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway with an overhead line between Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado.