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Seven Lakes–Pike's Peak Railway Company
Seven Lakes is an abandoned, historically populated place in Teller County, Colorado, on the Pikes Peak mountain. It was once the site of the Seven Lakes Hotel along a carriage road to the summit of Pikes Peak. Its waters flow from Beaver Creek to the Lake Moraine reservoir, a supplier of water to Colorado Springs. History Seven Lakes Park was a horseshoe basin nearly enclosed by Bald Mountain's (generally now called Almagre Mountain) walls. In the late 1870s, a wagon road from Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) to Jones Park was extended to Seven Lakes. From there, it was about a five-mile hike to the top of Pikes Peak. In 1889, the carriage road was completed from Seven Lakes to the Pikes Peak summit. Another route could be taken in 1904 on the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway (Short Line) to the Clyde, Colorado, Clyde station. It was about via trails and the carriage road to Seven Lakes. A one-story log cabin built about 1877 in a ravine at in eleva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson County, Colorado
Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 1,379, and it was the fourth least populated in the state. The county is named after the United States President Andrew Jackson. The county seat and only Colorado municipalities, municipality in the county is Walden, Colorado, Walden. History Most of Jackson County is a high relatively broad intermontane basin known as North Park (Colorado basin), North Park, which covers . This basin opens north into Wyoming and is rimmed on the west by the Park Range (Colorado), Park Range and Sierra Madre Range (Wyoming), Sierra Madre Range, on the south by the Rabbit Ears Range and the Never Summer Mountains, and on the east by the Medicine Bow Mountains. Elevations range from 7,800 to above sea level and is home to the head waters of the North Platte River. The term park is derived from ''parc'', the French word for game preserve. At one time North Park was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
