Austin Bluffs

Austin Bluffs is a summit in the Pikeview area of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, at 6,673 feet in elevation. It is also a residential area, that was once a settlement and the site of a tuberculosis sanatorium.

Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,673 feet
Description: American summit
Also known as: “Austin Bluffs, Colorado” and “Marketplace at Austin Bluffs”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palmer Park and Colorado Springs Christian Schools.

Palmer Park

Park

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Palmer Park is a regional park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located at 3650 Maizeland Road, the park is several miles northeast of the downtown area.

Colorado Springs Christian Schools

School

Colorado Springs Christian Schools is a private pre-k through 12th grade Christian school system in the cities of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Woodland Park, Colorado.

CIVA Charter High School

School

CIVA Charter High School, whose acronym stands for Character, Integrity, Vision, and the Arts, is a public charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is authorized by Colorado Springs District 11.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cragmor and Papeton.

Cragmor

Neighborhood

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Cragmor, first known as Cragmoor, is an area in central Colorado Springs, Colorado, between Templeton Gap and Austin Bluffs. A coal mining site during the 19th century, the area became known as the Cragmor around the turn of the century because the Cragmor Sanatorium was located there.

Papeton

Hamlet

Papeton, was a coal mining town, now in the area of Venetian Village, a neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that is 1.4 miles west southwest of Palmer Park. It is located at 6,184 feet in elevation.

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.

Austin Bluffs

Categories: neighborhood and landform
Location: El Paso, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.9011° or 38° 54′ 4″ north

Longitude

-104.8° or 104° 47′ 60″ west

Elevation

6,673 feet (2,034 metres)

Open location code

85CQW622+C2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358928715

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

Wikidata ID

Q6770946

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