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Gold Camp Road, Colorado - History Gold Camp Road is located directly to the southwest of Colorado Springs along North Cheyenne Canyon adjacent to Pike National Forest. The road began as "The Short Line", a standard gauge railway which once ran from the mines in the Cripple Creek area into Colorado Springs. The company which ran the railway went bankrupt in 1922 and the road was opened to vehicular traffic as a toll road in 1924. Urban legends indicate that there was once a horrible school bus accident in one of the tunnels which resulted in the deaths of all the poor little kiddies on the bus. Scientific Paradigm could find no credible historical reference for this tragedy. A disaster of that scale would certainly be widely remembered and legitimately referenced nearly everywhere. An excellent reference website for this area can, however, be found at http://www.goldcamproad.com. What has happened over time is much more credible, but less interesting. Entropy and fire have caused a number of the tunnels along this route to collapse, perhaps influencing the spread of the urban legends. However, skeletal human remains have recently been found in this area and, supposedly, the area has been used as a body dump for many years. Helen Hunt Falls, at the base of Gold Camp Road is another reportedly paranormally active location. The Falls are named after a successful female writer, Helen Hunt Jackson, who moved to Colorado Springs in 1837. She was a staunch advocate of Native American rights and the waterfalls were re-named in her honor following her death from cancer. A well written source of information on the history of this site and Helen Hunt Jackson can both be found in the wiki and at the Friends of Cheyenne Canon website. This location, along with so many in the Colorado Springs area, is simply breathtaking in it's beauty. It is worth a trip there on that basis alone. |
