Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The canyon is formed by Eight Mile Creek. The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad developed it as a route to take gold and supplies in and out of the Cripple Creek and Victor gold mining district. Phantom Canyon Road , a portion of the Gold Belt Byway that runs through the canyon, is an unpaved road connecting Cañon City and Victor .
Phantom Canyon is a canyon located in Colorado, in the Western United States. It is in the Laramie Foothills region of Colorado, near Fort Collins. It is formed by the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River. It is one of the only canyons in the Colorado Front Range that is roadless.
Phantom Canyon Road is a scenic road that connects Cañon City and Victor. The road goes through Phantom Canyon where it has two tunnels , three elevated bridges and many camp locations. It was originally the route of a railroad that connected Florence and Cripple Creek.
The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the mill towns of Florence and later moved to Cañon City, Colorado, on the banks of the Arkansas River, up steep and narrow Phantom Canyon to the Cripple Creek Mining District, west of Pikes Peak.
The highway crosses the Arkansas River on its way out of the city and continues northward to a junction with U.S Route 50 adjacent to Fremont County Airport. The state portion of the highway ends at U.S. Highway 50 and becomes the county-maintained Phantom Canyon Road (CR 67 in Fremont County), carrying the Gold Belt Byway through Phantom Canyon.
Phantom Canyon may refer to: Phantom Canyon (Pikes Peak Area), a canyon in Colorado, United States; Phantom Canyon (Fort Collins Area), a canyon in Colorado, United States; Phantom Canyon, part of Phantom Manor, an attraction in Disneyland Paris, France
Loop from Cañon City to Florence, Phantom Canyon, Victor, Cripple Creek, [l] Florissant Fossil Beds NM, Florissant, Royal Gorge, and back to Cañon City 2000 This byway explores the historic Gold Belt mining region of central Colorado; also a National Scenic Byway and a Back Country Byway. [i] [m] [32] [33] [34] Grand Mesa Scenic Byway
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Phantom Canyon (Pikes Peak Area) Picture Canyon (Colorado) Platte Canyon;