North Cheyenne Canon Park is a refuge and has always been for Colorado Springs residences. With the natural falls and wooded areas, it provided a moist escape for the weekends for many early settlers of the Colorado Springs area. Photo taken from Stratton Open Space just outside the entrance of Cheyenne Canon Park, one of my favorite places to hike as you can see why.

By 1883 the park, then owned by Colorado College Land Company, had a wagon road into the Canon, various footpath trails, and was open to the public every day of the week. To show how cherished this park really is, the decision to close the park on Sundays to give park employees a day off lead to public outrage. The gate was torn down, campaigns began speaking out against the closing and even Helen Hunt Jackson (a local writer that drew her inspiration from the Canon) finally gained the reward of having the City of Colorado Springs purchase 640 acres to be used as a city park. At this time the park gained its name Cheyenne Park.
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