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Colorado Springs
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POINTS OF INTEREST, COLORADO *SPRINGS, COLO.
many wonderful mountain trips. Colorado
Colorado Springs (pop. 29,078,
6,036
alt.
ft.)
lies on the sheltered plateau just east of Springs is on main traveled highways, both
Pikes Peak. The town was founded July 31, north and south and east and west. The
1871, by General William Jackson Palmer, and Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean highway, which
is the central gateway to the mountain coun- traverses the central section of the U. S.,
try. It is a tourist town of the first rank enters the mountain range via Ute Pass at
and is visited annually by more than 150,- this point. The Colorado-to-Gulf highway,
000 strangers. The summers are cool and de- from Galveston and Corpus Christi, has
lightful, and the winters, contrary to some- Colorado Springs as one of its main objective
what general impression, are mild and in- points. It is easily reached by way of the
vigorating. There is hardly one day in the new Santa Fe trail from Pueblo, the Lincoln
year that the automobile owner cannot drive highway from Denver, the Rainbow route
his car with pleasure. The region is world- from Canon City, and many other roads of
famed as a health resort. In and not far interstate character. Radiating from Colo-
from the limits of the town are several sana- rado Springs are many automobile roads,
toria—the Glocker, Cragnor, Star Ranch varying in length from a few miles to sev-
and the national sanatorium of the Modern eral hundred, and affording circle trips of
Woodmen of America. Other notable institu- great interest and variety. The city of Colo-
tions are the Union Printers’ home, the rado Springs has set aside Prospect Lake
Myron Stratton home and the Colorado school park as a public free camping ground for
for the deaf and blind. Among its educational automobile touring parties. Colorado City
institutions is Colorado college, the oldest (annexed to Colorado Springs in June, 1917)
and recognized as one of the best institu- and Manitou also have provided public camp-
tions for higher learning in the west. It was ing grounds. •
founded in 1874 and has recently completed Five miles southwest of Colorado Springs
rn endowment fund of $1,000,000. Monument is Stratton park, a natural spot beautified
park to the north and Cheyenne mountain by the late multi-millionaire, Winfield Scott
to the southwest are romantic spots loved by Stratton. It is at the entrance to the Chey-
“H. H.,” Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson. "My enne canyons. South Cheyenne canyon,
Garden,” 4 l /i miles southwest of Colorado about a mile long, is very beautiful and
Springs on the slopes of the Cheyenne moun- wonderful. Its entrance is guarded by the
tain, was a favorite retreat of the gifted au- Pillars of Hercules, and the canyon ends
thoress; it was here that she was buried, but abruptly at the Seven Falls, to the top of
the body was later removed to Evergreen which a series of steps lead, giving the spec
cemetery. tator an opportunity to get a close view of
In the Pikes Peak region there is said to the Bridal Veil and others of the Seven Falls.
be a greater variety of wonderful scenery, North Cheyenne canyon is a part of the pub-
more easily accessible, than in any similar lic park system; it is longer than its sister
area on the American continent. Develop- canyon and has a grandeur all its own. At
ment of good roads has within the last few the head of the canyon has been constructed
years made feasible to the automobile tourist a road leading over the ridge and down