|
Englemann Canyon (also spelled Engleman's Canon) is a valley along Ruxton Creek, in Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. It is one of three canyons in Manitou Springs, the others are Ute Pass and Williams Canyon. ==Upper Englemann Canyon== In 1880, a trail was opened in Englemann Canyon to Pikes Peak. It was called the Manitou Trail in 1883. Zalmon Simmons surveyed the canyon for telegraph lines. The Civil War veteran and later inventor of the Simmons mattress decided that the canyon was suited for construction of a cog railway. The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, built by Simmons and completed in 1890, begins in Englemann Canyon and follows Ruxton Creek up into the Rocky Mountains for Pikes Peak. The railroad climbs at a 6% grade through the canyon past "stately spruces and jagged rocks". The first third of the railway trip is through Englemann Canyon, alongside Ruxton Creek. Scenery includes large boulders, Ponderosa pine trees, Englemann spruce, and Colorado blue spruce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Along the Route )〕 Sights in the canyon include Artist Glen, Minnehaha Falls, Son-of-a-Gun Hill, Hells Gate, the site of Halfway House, and Ruxton Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ride the Cog Rail to the Summit of Pikes Peak: The Trip to the Summit of Pikes Peak )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digital Collection Search: Englemann Canyon )〕 Artist Glen was the 160 acre home and bed and breakfast along Ruxton Creek of artist and photographer William Hook and his family during the late 19th century. Some of its guests were delivered by burros via a Pikes Pike burro trail near their home. The accommodations became less desirable when the cog railway was built about 30 feet from the house. The Halfway House was a rustic hotel that served tourists who took the railway. Minnehaha, named for its falls, was a hamlet with several cabins. In 1891, the canyon was described in ''The Illustrated American'' as "a narrow valley, with a steep mountain rising on either side, and the clear, sparkling Ruxton Creek rushing parallel to the track, sometimes dashing over rocks hundreds of feet below the train, and sometimes pausing for a moment to form a deep, smooth pool, such as the speckled trout loves to haunt." File:Pike's Peak and Manitou Railway.jpg|Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway depot on Ruxton Avenue, 1894 File:Halfway House, Pike's Peak, Colorado.jpg|Halfway House, Ruxton Park, Colorado, by 1915 File:Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway 001.jpg|Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, 2006 In 1925, a water utility power plant was built in Ruxton Park for $16,866 by the city of Colorado Springs. The stone hydroelectric plant generates electricity as Ruxton Creek flows into Manitou Springs from the mountain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Englemann Canyon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|