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Colorado Prison Museum

Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in ColoradoJeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Jacob Montgomery · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Jacob Montgomery · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Jacob Montgomery · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colorado Prison Museum, a museum in Colorado
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0

Colorado Prison Museum is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,635 m. Brind Mountain stands 3,196 m to the north-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Colorado Territorial Prison Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Gold Belt Tour runs past it.

About

The story

The Museum of Colorado Prisons is a non-profit museum located off U.S. Highway 50 in Cañon City, Colorado. It is housed in a former state women's prison and is directly east of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (Old Max).

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1988.

Wikidata Q16203658, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.43930, -105.24719
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Nonans Peak: 1.7 mi
  • Fremont Peak: 2.0 mi
  • Y M C A Mountain: 2.3 mi
  • Baldy Mountain: 3.5 mi
  • Dawson Mountain: 5.0 mi
Parks: 23
  • Colorado Territorial Prison Park: 0.2 mi
  • Veterans Park: 0.2 mi
  • Centennial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Magdalene Park: 0.5 mi
  • Greydene Park: 0.7 mi
Cliffs: 20
  • Stony Point: 10.2 mi
  • Far Side: 12.5 mi
  • California Ethics Pinnacle: 12.5 mi
  • Fish Wall: 12.5 mi
  • Bulge Wall: 12.5 mi
Museums: 10
  • Florence Pioneer Museum: 7.8 mi
  • Lowell Thomas Museum: 19.6 mi
  • Outlaws & Law Men Jail Museum: 21.5 mi
  • Cripple Creek District Museum: 21.6 mi
  • Cripple Creek District Museum: 21.6 mi
Attractions: 7
Ghost towns: 6
Artworks: 6
  • Brachiosaurus: 5.8 mi
  • Anklyosaurus: 5.8 mi
  • Allosaurus: 5.8 mi
  • John C. Fremont: 6.0 mi
  • Rita the Rock Planter: 19.1 mi
Nature reserves: 4
Historic sites: 2
  • Jackson Hill: 17.0 mi
  • Gresson Ore Sorting: 19.8 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Hot springs: 1
  • Dakota Hot Springs: 10.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Colorado Prison Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Brind MountainNNE 22°3,196 m18.9 mi
Hardscrabble MountainS 171°3,164 m17.3 mi
Evening Star MountainNNE 16°3,153 m19.8 mi
Adobe PeakS 169°3,100 m16.2 mi
Straub MountainNNE 17°3,060 m18.4 mi
Crown PointNE 42°3,023 m19.4 mi
Nipple MountainNNE 25°3,022 m15.4 mi
Holt MountainSSE 165°3,015 m16.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3819:13
June solstice05:3819:4920:29
September equinox06:4918:2519:00
December solstice07:1516:0316:44

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343542495868747264524234
Precip in0.50.61.01.81.60.82.22.11.20.90.50.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Canon City, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/1795002655

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