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Pikes Peak Greenway is a 16-mile (26 km) trail in Colorado Springs, Colorado that parallels Monument and Fountain Creeks and winds through and alongside parks, like Monument Valley Park, and sports complexes. It connects with other trails, such as the Midland Trail, Bear Creek Trail and Templeton Gap Trail.
A short 0.4-mile (0.64 km) trail, Bear Creek Trail, provides a trail from the eastern edge of the park at 8th Street to the Pikes Peak Greenway in the Power Plant Reach. [9] [10] Trails can be accessed at the nature center, picnic pavilions or the 21st Street trail parking lot. [3]
The largest park in El Paso County is the 1,680-acre (680 ha) Cheyenne Mountain State Park, which is located in the southern end of Colorado Springs.Its terrain varies from prairie grassland and scrub oak to Douglas fir and ponderosa pine on the peaks at the western side of the park.
Templeton Gap is a gap between hills and bluffs located in northeastern Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. It was used by Native Americans to reach Ute Pass and was an area that oxen trains traveled to reach Colorado Springs. Templeton Ranch was operated by A.J. Templeton, for whom the feature is named.
Ute Trail became a wagon road in the 1860s providing transport to Leadville mining camp. [1] In 1872 the old wagon road through Ute Pass started at Rainbow Falls, or Ute Pass Falls. [7] The Colorado Midland Railway had tracks through the Ute Pass to Leadville and Aspen beginning in 1888. Service was later extended to Cripple Creek.
Geothermal resources of Colorado (1980) This is a partial list of geothermal springs in the US State of Colorado. These springs range in volume from the hot springs around Glenwood Springs which keep the Colorado River from freezing for 50 miles (80 km) downstream to little springs with just a trickle of water. Water temperatures range from ...
Palmer Park is a regional park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located at 3650 Maizeland Road, the park is several miles northeast of the downtown area. [ 2 ] Elevation Outdoors Magazine named it Best Urban Park in its Best of Rockies 2017 list. [ 3 ]
Bear Creek Cañon Park - View of rock formation in the park, May's Peak in the background. Bear Creek Cañon Park is a high-country park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado with steep trails for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. A trail in the western edge of the Bear Creek Regional Park connects to the high-country Bear Creek ...