The Bruin Inn at Helen Hunt Falls in North Cheyenne Canon Park. William Palmer, the founder of the city of Colorado Springs, donated an additional 480 acres to the park in 1907. Before he donated the land he developed a carriage road through the canon and over High Drive, built the shelter pavilion and built the original Mt. Cutler Trails and other trails. Located on this property donated was the original Bruin Inn, constructed in 1881, which was at one time the President of Colorado College Tenneys residence. The Bruin Inn is now the Helen Hunt Visitors Center we call The Cub a tourist attraction and landmark.

Cheyenne Mountain

By easy slope to west as if it had
No thought, when first its soaring was begun
Except to look devoutly to the sun.
It rises, and has risen, until glad
With light as with a garment it is clad.
Each dawn before the tardy plains have won
For us, the light doth cling reluctant sad
To leave its brow. Beloved mount, I
Thy worshipper, as thou the sun¹s, each morn
My dawn, before the dawn, receive from thee;
And think, as thy rose-tinting peak I see,
That thou wert great when Homer was not born,
And ere thou change, all human songs shall die!

Helen Hunt Jackson


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