Park County, Colorado Park County, Colorado Alma is a town located in Park County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 179. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alma, Colorado"
Arapaho National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the U.S. state of Colorado. The facility is managed jointly with the Roosevelt National Forest and the Pawnee National Grassland from the United States Forest Service office in Fort Collins, Colorado. The combined facility of 1.5 million acres (6,000 km²) is denoted as ARP by the Forest Service. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arapaho National Forest"
Bailey, Colorado is a small unincorporated community in northern Park County, Colorado. The community is located in the foothills of the Front Range, approximately 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Denver along U.S. Highway 285. It is located on the east side of Kenosha Pass, along the valley of the North Fork South Platte River and is one of the largest communities in the Platte Canyon region. The community consists of a strip of businesses along the highway, as well as nearby houses on the mountainside overlooking the highway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bailey, Colorado"
Boreas Pass (elevation 11481 ft) is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located on the continental divide, at the crest of the Front Range along the border between Park (south) and Summit counties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boreas Pass"
Como is a small unincorporated community in northern Park County, Colorado in the United States. Located at the northern end of South Park, the town is a historic mining settlement founded during the Colorado Gold Rush in 1859. It sits approximately one-half mile (1 km) north of U.S. Highway 285, approximately 9 miles (15 km) northeast of Fairplay. It is accessible by an unpaved county road off Highway 285 leading northwest over Boreas Pass (to Breckenridge) in the Front Range. The mountains northwest of town form a dramatic background to the town site, which sits on the flank of Little Baldy Mountain. The town was named by prospectors and miners from Como, Italy who came to work the gold fields of the area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Como, Colorado"
Fairplay is a town located in Park County, Colorado. At an altitude of 9,953 ft. (3,034 m), it is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the state of Colorado. ** As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 610. It is the county seat of Park County . A historic gold mining settlement, the town was founded in 1859 during the early days of the Colorado Gold Rush. It is the largest community in the grassland basin of Colorado known as South Park, sitting at the northwest end of the basin at the junction of U.S. Highway 285 and Colorado State Highway 9. It sits on hillside on the eastern side of the Middle Fork South Platte River, near where Highway 9 ascends the river valley northward to Alma and Hoosier Pass. Although it was founded during the intitial placer mining boom, the mines in the area continued to produce gold and silver ore for many decades up through the middle of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fairplay, Colorado"
Geneva Creek is a short tributary of the North Fork South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) long, in central Colorado in the United States. It drains part of the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver in northern Park County. It rises at the continental divide west of Mount Bierstadt and descends through a canyon to the southeast. It joins the North Fork South Platte from the north at Grant along U.S. Highway 285. The valley of the river provides the route of the Guanella Pass Scenic Byway between Georgetown and Grant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geneva Creek (Colorado)"
Grant is a small rural unincorporated community in northern Park County, Colorado in the United States. The community is located in foothills of the Front Range in the Platte Canyon, in the upper valley of the North Fork South Platte River, approximately 6 miles (10 km) east of Kenosha Pass. It sits along U.S. Highway 285 approximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Denver. It consists largely of a general store, post office, and surrounding houses and trailers along the south side of the highway and along the north side of the river. It is located at the mouth of Geneva Creek where it descends southward from the Front Range. County Road 62 follows the creek northward to Guanella Pass, leading to Georgetown in the canyon of Clear Creek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grant, Colorado"
Hoosier Pass (elevation 11541 ft) is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located on the continental divide at the northern end of the Mosquito Range, in a gap between Mount Democrat (west) and Hoosier Ridge (east). It sits on the boundary between Park (south) and Summit (north) counties. The pass provides a route between the headwaters of the Blue River (tributary of the Colorado River) to the north and the headwaters of the South Platte River in South Park to the south. It is traversed by Colorado State Highway 9 between the towns of Breckenridge (north) and Fairplay south. The highway over the pass provides an alternative route from Denver to the ski areas near Breckenridge and Keystone. It is generally open all year round, is traversable by all vehicles in good weather, but is occasionally closed during winter storms. The road over the pass has a smooth approach on the south side but has several switchbacks on the north side with a grade of 8%. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hoosier Pass"
Jefferson is a small unincorporated community in northern Park County, Colorado in the United States. It is located the northern end of South Park, along U.S. Highway 285, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Fairplay, at the western foot of Kenosha Pass. The town consists largely of a strip of retail businesses along U.S. Highway 285, as well as a small unpaved grid of houses and trailers on the south side of the highway. The most notable landmark in town is a historic one-room schoolhouse, highly visible in the surrounding grasslands of South Park. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jefferson, Colorado"
Kenosha Pass (elevation 10,001 ft) is a mountain pass located in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located in the Front Range southwest of Denver in northern Park County, just northeast of the town of Jefferson. Geologically, the pass is located atop a large granite batholith (known as the Kenosha Batholith) that forms the spine of the Front Range along the eastern side of South Park. It is traversed by U.S. Highway 285 between Jefferson and Grant, and provides a route the valley of the North Fork South Platte River and the headwaters of the South Platte River in South Park. In addition to providing one of the principal access routes to South Park, the pass offers dramatic view of the surrounding Rockies, including the nearby peaks of Mount Evans and Mount Bierstadt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenosha Pass"
Lake George is a town located in Park County, Colorado in the United States. The town is located on Highway 24 northwest of Colorado Springs, and several miles northwest of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lake George (town), Colorado"
The Lost Creek Wilderness is a 119,790 acre wilderness area located in central Colorado in Jefferson and Park counties south of the town of Bailey. The area is situated entirely within the boundaries of the Pike National Forest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lost Creek Wilderness"
Mosquito Pass (elevation 13188 ft) is a high mountain pass in the Mosquito Range of central Colorado in the United States. The pass sits along the boundary between Lake and Park counties between Leadville (west) and Fairplay (east). One of the highest passes in the state, it is traversable only on foot or with a proper four-wheel drive vehicle. It is typically passable only during summer months. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mosquito Pass" http://www.shortopedia.com , this is it! Park_County__Colorado
Mount Bailey is a mountain located in Park County of north central Colorado. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mount Bailey (Colorado)"
Mount Lincoln (elevation 14,286 ft) is the eighth highest mountain peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Mosquito Range, just west of Hoosier Pass, and is the highest peak in that range. It is located just east of the continental divide in northwestern Park County, approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Climax. The peak forms a twin summit with Mount Cameron, another fourteener of the Mosquito Range located just to the southwest and which is sometimes considered a second summit of Mount Lincoln. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mount Lincoln (Colorado)"
Park County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of 2000, the population is 14,523. The county seat is Fairplay. ...more on Wikipedia about "Park County, Colorado"
Red Hill Pass (elevation 9993 ft) is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located in the foothills of the Mosquito Range at the northern end of South Park in Park County. It is traversed by U.S. Highway 285 approximately 6 mi (10 km) northeast of the town of Fairplay, The pass is easily traversable by most motor vehicles and rarely closes in the winter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red Hill Pass (Colorado)"
Shawnee is a small unincorporated rural community in northern Park County, Colorado. It is located in the Platte Canyon, along the North Fork South Platte River, west of Bailey on U.S. Highway 285. It consists largely of a general store and post office, and well as surrounding houses, on the hillside south of the highway overlooking the river valley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shawnee, Colorado"
South Park City is an open air museum located in the town of Fairplay in Park County, Colorado in the United States. The museum is a historic reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and the later Colorado Silver Boom in South Park in the late 1850s through the 1880s. The museum contains 34 authentic relocated buildings filled with over 60,000 artifacts that depict many of the economic and social aspects of life in a gold or silver mining town in Colorado in the late 19th century. The museum was opened in 1959 after two years of preparatory work by the South Park Historical Foundation. The museum is open daily from mid May to mid October. ...more on Wikipedia about "South Park City"
Tarryall Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 25 miles (40 km) long, in Park County in central Colorado in the United States. It drains a rural portion of north and central South Park, a intermontane grassland in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver. It rises in the high Rockies in several forks along the continental divide in the Pike National Forest southwest of Boreas Pass. It descends to the southwest through a short canyon, emerging into South Park near Como, Colorado. It crosses U.S. Highway 285 east of Red Hill Pass northeast of Fairplay, then meanders towards the southeast, joining the South Platte from the east in the southeastern corner of South Park. The creek was one of the most active locations for the prospecting of gold during the Colorado Gold Rush in 1859. The "Tarryall Diggings" and other nearby sites attracted thousands of prospectors over Kenosha Pass, and the town of Tarryall (now completely vanished) was soon founded near the creek. There are no towns along the creek today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tarryall Creek" http://www.shortopedia.com - now!
Tarryall was a former town in northern Park County, Colorado in the United States, and still exists as an unincorporated town of cabins and old buildings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tarryall, Colorado"
The Thirtynine Mile volcanic field, located in Park and Teller counties, Colorado, was the site of significant volcanism in the Tertiary Period (See: geologic timescale). The field is named for Thirtynine Mile Mountain, a local peak. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thirtynine Mile volcanic field"
Trout Creek Pass (elevation 9,346 ft) is a mountain pass located in the Rocky Mountains of south-central Colorado in the United States. The pass sits atop the southern end of the Mosquito Range on the Park- Chaffee county line, between South Park (the headwaters of the South Platte River to the east) and the headwaters of the Arkansas River to the west. It is traversed jointly by U.S. Highway 24 (between Hartsel and Buena Vista) and U.S. Highway 285 (between Fairplay and Buena Vista). It is passable by most motorized vehicles and is closed only during severe winter storms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Trout Creek Pass"
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