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Eldorado Canyon State Park is part of the Colorado State Park system. It was established in 1978 and is located in Boulder County near the city of Boulder . [ 2 ] The park consists of two areas, the Inner Canyon (developed area) and Crescent Meadows (undeveloped area).
In 1867, to secure the riverboat traffic and protect miners in the canyon from Paiute attacks the U.S. Army established Camp El Dorado, an outpost at the mouth of El Dorado Canyon that remained until it was abandoned in 1869. From 1870 the mines again were active to the point where from 1879 to 1907 El Dorado Canyon again had a post office, now ...
Eldorado Canyon State Park: Boulder: 885 358 1978 Eleven Mile State Park: Park: 7,662 3,101 1970 Elkhead Reservoir State Park: Moffat, Routt: 2,200 890 2006 Fishers Peak State Park: Las Animas: 19,200 7,800 2020 The park opened on October 30, 2020. [2] Golden Gate Canyon State Park: Jefferson, Gilpin: 12,119 4,904 1960 Harvey Gap State Park ...
The grade continued to be the only such access until 1927 when the present road at the bottom of the canyon was built. In 1978, part of the grade became part of the newly created Eldorado Canyon State Park and was later converted into the Fowler Trail. The bottom line is the Community Ditch (located at about the 5,800-foot (1,800 m) level).
SH 93 runs 18.8 miles (30.3 km), starting at its southern junction with US 6 and SH 58 at the entrance to Clear Creek Canyon in Golden. It runs north, just east of the mountains, ending at a junction with SH 119 in central Boulder.
The Eldorado Springs post office has the ZIP code 80025 (post office boxes). [4] At the 2020 United States census, the population of the Eldorado Springs CDP was 559. [3] Eldorado Canyon State Park, adjacent and upstream, is famous for its classic North-American climbing routes.
Nelson's Landing, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Nelson at the downstream end of Eldorado Canyon, was the village and landing established on the Colorado River reservoir, Lake Mohave, where the canyon had its confluence with the lake. The wharf area of Nelson's Landing was destroyed during a flash flood on September 14, 1974.
El Dorado Canyon (Nevada) Eldorado Canyon State Park, Colorado; Operation El Dorado Canyon, the codename of the 1986 United States bombing of Libya