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Garden of the Gods (Arapaho: Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i) is a 1,341.3 acre public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] 862 acres (3.49 km 2 ) of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.
Acres Green is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Acres Green CDP was 2,922 at the 2020 United States Census. [3]
The City of Colorado Springs has community, regional and neighborhood parks. [3] Neighborhood parks are up to six acres in size and may offer a combination of playgrounds, picnic areas, walking paths, and sports fields or courts. [3] There are 135 neighborhood parks, totaling 903.9 acres as of May, 2013. [4]
Chimney Rock National Monument [c] near Pagosa Springs (September 21, 2012, Obama) Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction and Fruita (May 24, 1911, Taft ) Dinosaur National Monument [ d ] near Dinosaur (80 acres October 4, 1915, Wilson , additional 200,000 acres July 14, 1938, F. Roosevelt )
In 1902, William Jackson Palmer the founder of Colorado Springs, donated the 692 acres to Colorado Springs for the park. [6] [7] It was one of many parks established due to land donations by Palmer. As reported in The New York Times in 1907, Palmer also provided the land for Monument Valley Park, North Cheyenne Cañon Park, and Dorchester Park. [8]
Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, ... It covers 7,200 acres (2,900 ha) of land at an elevation of approximately 6,200 feet (1,900 m
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5 Day Timelapse - Waldo Canyon Fire - June 23–28, 2012 . The Waldo Canyon fire was a forest fire that started approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 23, 2012, and was declared 100 percent contained on July 10, 2012, after no smoke plumes were visible on a small portion of the containment line on Blodgett Peak.