Woodland Park
Woodland Park combines a pine-forested mountain setting with the practical character of a small Colorado town in a way that reflects its position on the Front Range. Set west of Colorado Springs in Teller County, it occupies high ground in the Pikes Peak region, where residential streets and local businesses are woven into conifer forest. Pikes Peak, rising to 14,115 feet (4,302 metres), is the area’s defining summit and a long-standing symbol of Colorado’s mountain country. The town lies on U.S. Highway 24, a principal road across this part of the Front Range. Pikes Peak’s name recalls explorer Zebulon Pike, who encountered the mountain in 1806 during his expedition.
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Among the cities of Colorado, Woodland Park stands out for its high-altitude setting on the northern slopes of Pikes Peak. At about 8,465 feet (2,580 m), this Teller County community sits in the Ute Pass area, where forested terrain leads toward Pike National Forest and the Rampart Range. Pikes Peak, west of Colorado Springs, is the defining summit of the wider area and has long shaped travel through the pass. In town, the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center presents fossil finds and research on prehistoric life from the region and beyond. Woodland Park has the practical character of a mountain community, with access to forests, trails and the Pikes Peak corridor rather than the pace of Front Range cities. Move on to other webcams in Colorado to compare mountain settings around Pikes Peak and Ute Pass.
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