The Mesa
The Mesa is a peak in El Paso, Colorado and has an elevation of 6,611 feet. The Mesa is situated nearby to the locality Garden of the Gods, as well as near the suburb Roswell.Places of Interest
Highlights include Glen Eyrie and Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site.
Glen Eyrie
Castle
Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0.
Glen Eyrie is an English Tudor-style castle built in 1871 by General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs. The castle is owned today by The Navigators, a worldwide Christian organization.
Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site
Photo: ERoss99, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site is a living history museum and farm located at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Staff and volunteers dressed in period-appropriate attire interpret life in the Pikes Peak region from 1775 through 1910.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado High School
School
Coronado High School is a public high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Colorado Springs School District 11. Coronado High School is located on Mesa Road and Fillmore Street, on a mesa overlooking Colorado Springs, with a view of Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garden of the Gods and Roswell.
Garden of the Gods
Locality
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Garden of the Gods is a 1,341.3-acre public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. 862 acres of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.
Roswell
Suburb
Roswell, now annexed into the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was a coal mine settlement near the northern bluffs of Colorado Springs and a 19th-century railroad junction.
Pikeview
Hamlet
Pikeview is a neighborhood of Colorado Springs, annexed to the city as the "Pike View Addition" on August 1, 1962. In 1896 there was a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Pikeview, and miners had begun digging a shaft for the Pikeview Coal Mine.
The Mesa
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,611 feet
- Description: mountain in Colorado, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: El Paso, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.89444° or 38° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
-104.87387° or 104° 52′ 26″ westElevation
6,611 feet (2,015 metres)Open location code
85CQV4VG+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 358944242OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“The Mesa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “The Mesa (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Colorado)”
- Cebuano: “The Mesa”
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