Cheyenne Mountain State Park
Cheyenne Mountain State Park is a nature reserve in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,998 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Skipper Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.6 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
How to reach it
- 15.5 mi off the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 27 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Glen Oaks Park: 1.5 mi
- Oak Meadows Park: 2.0 mi
- Broadmoor Bluffs Park: 2.2 mi
- Broadmoor Glen Park: 2.3 mi
- Founder's Field: 2.5 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain: 2.4 mi
- The Horns: 2.4 mi
- Goat Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Gray Back Peak: 3.6 mi
- Saint Peters Dome: 4.2 mi
- Domestic Goats: 2.8 mi
- Tiger: 2.9 mi
- Giraffe Feeding Experience: 2.9 mi
- snow leopard: 2.9 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 5.3 mi
- Children Holding Hands: 2.7 mi
- Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 4.3 mi
- Dinosauar: 6.0 mi
- Green Dinosaur: 6.1 mi
- The Epicenter: 6.6 mi
- Tank: 2.4 mi
- Mountaineer Train Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Peace Officers' Memorial: 7.0 mi
- Welcome to Colorado Springs: 7.1 mi
- Nelson Camp: 7.1 mi
- Shipping Container Farm: 2.9 mi
- Bear Sculpture Garden: 2.9 mi
- Hillside Gardens: 6.3 mi
- Rock Garden: 7.3 mi
- Formal Garden: 7.4 mi
- Penrose Heritage Museum: 4.3 mi
- World Figure Skating Museum: 4.4 mi
- U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum: 6.8 mi
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum: 6.9 mi
- Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum: 7.2 mi
- Devils Slide: 4.8 mi
- Point Sublime: 4.9 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 8.1 mi
- Windy Point: 11.5 mi
- Corral Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Prairie Skipper Picnic Area: 0.6 mi
- Turkey Roost Picnic Area: 0.8 mi
- Elk Run Picnic Area: 0.9 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
- South Canyon: 10.5 mi
- Tahama Spring: 7.6 mi
- Seven Minute Spring: 9.7 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 9.8 mi
- Navajo Spring: 9.9 mi
- Soda Spring: 9.9 mi
- Ramona: 4.2 mi
- Feather: 4.2 mi
- Bridal Veil: 4.2 mi
- Shorty: 4.2 mi
- Hill: 4.2 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 6.2 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 7.6 mi
- Fountain Creek Regional Park: 7.6 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 8.0 mi
- Aiken Canyon Preserve: 8.1 mi
- Lytle: 9.0 mi
- Franceville: 14.0 mi
- Altman: 16.0 mi
- Husted: 19.4 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Pueblo North (Closed): 19.6 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Pueblo South: 23.0 mi
- Dakota Hot Springs: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Cheyenne Mountain State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | NW 304° | 4,302 m | 13.4 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | NW 304° | 4,073 m | 14.5 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | WNW 302° | 3,837 m | 11.8 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | WNW 290° | 3,780 m | 12.5 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | WNW 296° | 3,768 m | 9.4 mi |
| Mount Rosa | WNW 285° | 3,507 m | 6.2 mi |
| Mount Big Chief | W 274° | 3,404 m | 7.4 mi |
| Cow Mountain | W 278° | 3,392 m | 13.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:48 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 33 | 41 | 48 | 57 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 40 | 32 |
| Precip in | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Colorado Springs Muni AP, 10 mi away.
- Prairie Lizard112 obs
- Mule Deer86 obs
- Gambel Oak69 obs
- butterfly milkweed63 obs
- Wild Turkey62 obs
- Spotted Towhee55 obs
- great mullein50 obs
- Striped Bark Scorpion49 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/219721781
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 7 mi
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