Place to see: Eldorado Canyon State Park, Eldorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Chipmunk

Colorado Chipmunk by Klaus Girk

These guys can be seen throughout the park and pick up scraps of nuts and fruit left behind by park visitors.

Colorado Chipmunk
Climber on the Bastille
What is the best route?
Brown Trout in South Boulder Creek
Continental Divide

About this place:

This park is day use only with no overnight camping. Known for great mountain climbing with some world rated ascents. Also has picnic areas, hiking trails, and stream for fishing. Colorado State fishing rules apply and there is an entrance fee. Also no ammenities are available in the park and visitors need to bring their own food and water. Toilets are available at the Visitors Center and throughout the east side of the park, but not available at the west side near Crescent Meadow. Pets must be on a leash.

Postcards about Eldorado Canyon State Park:

  • Klaus Girk

    7 December 2007
    From:
    Klaus Girk

    Eldorado Canyon State Park near Boulder, Colorado offers the day user an exiting assortment of activities including rock climbing, waffling, fly fishing, picnicking, and hiking trails. I have had many opportunities in obtaining fantastic photos along South Boulder Creek which dissects the park including birds, squirrels, deer, and a menagerie of other wildlife. When there visit the visitors center for publications on the park and a history of the area.

    Along the Rattlesnake Trail you will see remnants of the Craig Hotel built in 1908 and destroyed by a fire in 1912. Denver Rio Grand Western trains would stop for visitors or one could take a trolley from Denver to Eldorado Springs and then take car transportation to the hotel. From the hotel sight you have a clear view of the climbing walls, the visitors center, and picnic area of the park.

9 Kneale Rd.
Eldorado Springs, Colorado, US
Telephone: 303-499-2729
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Discovered by Klaus Girk
on 16 November 2007.
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