Ruxton Park
Ruxton Park is a park in Colorado, at a recorded elevation of 2,767 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the west, 3.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Marys Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2767 m
How to reach it
- 12.3 mi off the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 17 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Marys Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Sheep Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Cameron Cone: 1.3 mi
- Rocky Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Mount Manitou: 1.7 mi
- Hurricane Canyon Natural Area: 2.4 mi
- Mabel Willie Park: 3.1 mi
- Soda Springs Park: 3.2 mi
- Mansions Park: 3.5 mi
- Seven Minute Spring Park: 3.6 mi
- Medicine Wheel Sacred Indian Sitr: 2.9 mi
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway No. 2: 3.6 mi
- Cave of the Winds: 3.7 mi
- Manitou Cliff Dwellings: 3.7 mi
- Heizer Trailhead: 3.7 mi
- Big Red Chair: 3.6 mi
- Cougar Statue: 6.7 mi
- Back to Kansas: 6.7 mi
- Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 7.0 mi
- Trailblazer: 7.7 mi
- America the Beautiful: 3.6 mi
- George Eber Duclo: 3.7 mi
- Nelson Camp: 4.8 mi
- Glen Eyrie: 5.9 mi
- For the Unborn: 6.4 mi
- The Secret Garden: 6.4 mi
- westside community garden: 6.9 mi
- Horticultural Art Society Demonstration Garden: 7.8 mi
- Heritage Garden: 7.9 mi
- Rock Garden: 7.9 mi
- Windy Point: 3.1 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 5.2 mi
- Point Sublime: 6.3 mi
- Devils Slide: 7.8 mi
- The Gym: 19.4 mi
- Miramont Castle: 3.1 mi
- Heritage Center: 3.6 mi
- Pike's Peak Summit Visitor Center: 3.6 mi
- Race Car Museum Outlet: 4.5 mi
- Ghost Town Wild West Museum: 6.2 mi
- Crowe Gulch Picnic Ground: 4.2 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Prairie Skipper Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Turkey Roost Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Elk Run Picnic Area: 11.1 mi
- Iron Spring: 2.7 mi
- Twin Spring: 3.1 mi
- Ute Chief Spring: 3.2 mi
- Stratton Spring: 3.2 mi
- Cheyenne Spring: 3.3 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 3.3 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 5.3 mi
- Hull: 6.6 mi
- Weimer: 6.6 mi
- Shorty: 6.6 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 7.2 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 7.3 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 8.6 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain State Park: 10.7 mi
- Altman: 11.2 mi
- Husted: 12.7 mi
- Lytle: 17.5 mi
- Franceville: 20.5 mi
- Gwillimsville: 20.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Ruxton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | W 269° | 4,302 m | 3.7 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | W 277° | 4,073 m | 4.6 mi |
| Devil's Playground | WNW 287° | 3,984 m | 5.4 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | WSW 241° | 3,837 m | 3.0 mi |
| Sentinel Point | W 269° | 3,814 m | 7.0 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | SW 232° | 3,780 m | 5.4 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | SSW 196° | 3,768 m | 3.6 mi |
| Mount Rosa | SSE 166° | 3,507 m | 6.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruxton Park, under a mile away.
- quaking aspen28 obs
- bearberry22 obs
- woodland pinedrops13 obs
- blue columbine11 obs
- Mule Deer10 obs
- Front Range Beardtongue9 obs
- Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel9 obs
- Convergent Lady Beetle7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358928788
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 8 mi
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