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State Highway 83 (SH 83) is a state highway that is located along the Front Range in the U.S. State of Colorado.Spanning about 56.2 miles (90.4 km) from the SH 21 (Powers Boulevard) interchange in northern Colorado Springs and SH 2 (Colorado Boulevard.) in Denver, the highway follows a south–north route, paralleling Interstate 25 to the east and serving rural areas.
In 1964, the City of Colorado Springs included the "Powers Corridor" in its major thoroughfare plan as a bypass of the city two miles east of Academy Boulevard, [2] [3]: 2–3 and, in the 1970s, Colorado Springs and El Paso County recommended that Powers Boulevard be constructed "at least to expressway standards" and proposed it to be included ...
Powers Boulevard will eventually become a freeway bypass of the Colorado Springs metro area. The construction is in two phases, I-25 is involved in phase 1, where a new directional T-interchange (Y-interchange) will be built near exit 156 at North Gate Boulevard between milemarkers 149 and 151. The interchange was completed in summer 2021.
In Penrose, the route, once again, intersects US-50. SH 115 then becomes an expressway, with interchanges at O'Connell Boulevard, South Academy Boulevard, and Lake Avenue as it enters Colorado Springs. It ends at I-25 in Colorado Springs. SH 115 looking north towards Colorado Springs
The 56.4-acre (22.8 ha) open space has parking near the trailhead on south side of Stetson Hills Boulevard. [21] The terrain is mixed grass prairie and has scrub oak. The highest point in Colorado Springs is the crest of the ridge in this open space. [27] Manitou Section 16 Open Space Lower Gold Camp Road 80906 Open Space
US 87 in Colorado Springs: SH 83 (now Academy Blvd) in Colorado Springs c. 1964: 2007 Decommissioned in October 2007 as part of a highway swap to get Powers Blvd. to become SH 21; signage was not removed until spring 2008. Now Circle Dr and Airport Rd. SH 30 — — — — c. 1938: 1953 SH 30 — — — —
Stratmoor (Stratmoor Hills and Valley) is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Stratmoor CDP was 6,518 at the United States Census 2020. [3]
Colorado Springs is 70 miles south of Denver, which has the largest population of any city in Colorado. Colorado Springs has the largest area of any city in the state, with 194.87 square miles (504.7 km 2) in 2013. [6] Of that, 132 square miles (340 km 2) is developed land. [1]: 32 It has 16,331 parkland acres and 7,431 street land miles. [6