Mountain Playgrounds 
Page Seventeen Of the Pike National Forest 
accessible the numerous summer resorts of this region, and continues 
westward through South Park and over Boreas Pass to Leadville. 
The Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway (‘‘Cog Road”), from Mani- 
tou to the summit of Pikes Peak, is operated during the summer season 
for the accommodation of tourists. 
The Midland Terminal Railway, from Colorado Springs to Cripple 
Creek, ascends Ute Pass to Divide and thence turns south, following 
along that part of the Forest lying west of Pikes Peak. 
The Sante Fe, Colorado & Southern, and Denver & Rio Grande 
Railroads also skirt the east boundary of the Pike Forest from Denver 
to Colorado Springs. 
A great number of automobile roads take the visitor to many 
portions of the Forest. Some of the most noted highways are the 
boulevard over Lookout Mountain and through the Denver Mountain 
Parks to Idaho Springs and other points in Clear Creek Canyon, then 
crossing the Continental Divide over Berthoud Pass via the ‘‘Midland 
Trail’’; the road up Bear Creek Canyon from Denver to the vicinity 
of Evergreen and Camp Rock; the “South Park Highway” up the 
North Fork of the South Platte via Mcrrison, Turkey Creek or Ever- 
green, and Baileys; the recently constructed Forest Service road from 
Sedalia to Deckers Springs, thence to West Creek and Lake George, 
where it joins the “‘ Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway’’; the ‘‘ Pikes 
Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway,” leading westward from Colorado 
Springs up Ute Pass; the Pikes Peak Auto Highway (toll road), a 
double-track auto road of standard construction from Cascade to the 
summit of Pikes Peak, and the ‘‘Colorado—Gulf Highway” along the 
Front Range boundary of the Forest from Denver southward. 
Good wagon roads also run to all parts of the Forest, and there 
are practically no localities which can not be reached by trail. 
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