44mi/71km west of Colorado Springs, at a height of 10,000ft/3,000m, is the old gold-diggers' town of Cripple Creek (which can be reached by all-terrain vehicles from the Gold Camp Road). In the 1890s there was a swarming population of over 10,000 gold prospectors; nowadays Cripple Creek has no more than 600 inhabitants.
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