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About Ruxton Park

Ruxton Park is a historic site along the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway corridor in El Paso County, Colorado, sitting at 9,078 feet in elevation. It marks mile 3 on the railway's 8.9-mile climb toward the Pikes Peak summit, reached as the line ascends through Englemann Canyon alongside Ruxton Creek.

Visitors today encounter this location primarily as a point along the historic cog railway route rather than a standing settlement. The railway departs its depot at 6,570 feet and passes the former Halfway Hotel site before reaching Ruxton Park, giving riders a sense of the layered history embedded in this mountain corridor.

Access is essentially tied to the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway experience. There are no independent structures or townsite remains described at Ruxton Park itself — it is a named location on a working railway line, best appreciated as a window into the mountain tourism and transit history of the region.

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Ruxton Park
38.8417°N, 104.9753°W
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