Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a butte in the Colorado Piedmont region of the Great Plains. An area landmark, it is the namesake of the town of Castle Rock, Colorado. The mesa’s caprock consists of rhyolite, rock which is strongly resistant to erosion.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jeffalbright, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Douglas County High School and Ridgeline Open Space.
Douglas County High School
School
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Douglas County High School, sometimes nicknamed as DCHS and locally identified as DC, is a public high school in Castle Rock, Colorado. It is the oldest school in the Douglas County School District.
Ridgeline Open Space
Park
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Ridgeline Open Space is a public park located within The Meadows neighborhood in Castle Rock, Colorado along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. It sits at an elevation of 6,607 feet and consists of 370 acres of public land that has been designated for conservation and recreational use. Ridgeline Open Space is situated 2½ miles west of Castle Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castle Rock and Castle Pines Village.
Castle Rock
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Castle Rock is a town of about 81,000 in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the western U.S. state of Colorado. The seat of Douglas County, the town lies 26 miles south-southeast of Denver.
Castle Pines Village
Village
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Castle Pines Village, also known as The Village at Castle Pines or The Village, is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. Castle Pines Village is situated 4½ miles northwest of Castle Rock.
Franktown
Locality
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Franktown is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Franktown is situated 6 miles east of Castle Rock.
Castle Rock
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: butte in Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
- Categories: butte and tourism
- Location: Douglas, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.37882° or 39° 22′ 44″ northLongitude
-104.85679° or 104° 51′ 24″ westElevation
6,545 feet (1,995 metres)Open location code
85FQ94HV+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 358921542OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Cebuano—“Castle Rock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاسل روك”
- Cebuano: “Castle Rock”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castle Rock”. Photo: Jeffalbright, CC BY-SA 3.0.