Black Squirrel Creek Bridge

Peyton is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Peyton post office has the ZIP Code 80831. At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Peyton CDP was 214.The nearby unincorporated area of Falcon also uses zip code 80831. Peyton and towns such as Falcon, Calhan, Ramah, Simla, and Matheson straddle U.S. Highway 24 between Colorado Springs and Limon, Colorado where US 24 intersects with Interstate 70.

Falcon High School is located in Falcon, Colorado, just east of Colorado Springs and was the first high school in Falcon School District 49. The other two high schools in the district, Sand Creek High School, and Vista Ridge High School were formed in 1997 when Falcon High School was split.

Eastonville is an extinct town in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. A post office named Easton opened on May 6, 1872, but the name was changed to Eastonville on September 28, 1883. The post office closed on May 11, 1932. Eastonville is no longer incorporated. The former town limits now lie in the Colorado Springs metropolitan area, near the Black Forest.

Meadow Lake Airport (ICAO: KFLY, FAA LID: FLY, formerly 00V) is a public use airport located 14 nautical miles (16 mi, 26 km) northeast of the central business district of Colorado Springs, a city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is privately owned by the Meadow Lake Airport Association, Inc.Meadow Lake is the largest pilot owned airport in the State of Colorado. Meadow Lake Airport went in service on November 1, 1967 and is a general aviation reliever airport for Colorado Springs. There are several aviation related businesses on the airfield including flying schools and aircraft maintenance facilities. In 2010 the airport was approved for an FAA grant to provide an AWOS (automated weather observation system). The system has been installed, and it was certified by the FAA on October 21, 2010. A change of FAA identifier from 00V to FLY (ICAO: KFLY) took effect on January 14, 2011. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned FLY by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned FLY to Finley, New South Wales, Australia).

Falcon School District 49 (D49) is a public school district located on 133 square miles in the shadow of Pikes Peak. It spans from eastern Colorado Springs and several unincorporated areas of El Paso County.

Bijou Basin is an extinct town located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The townsite is located at 39.1356°N 104.4569°W / 39.1356; -104.4569 (Bijou Basin) at an elevation of 6,398 feet (1,950 m). Travelers could take post road 49 to the settlement. It was located five miles southeast of another early settlement, Sidney.

Banning Lewis Academy are the two schools consisting of Banning Lewis Ranch Academy and Banning Lewis Preparatory Academy which are tuition free public charter schools serving approximately 1500 students in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The upper school campus opened in August 2017. BLPA now includes grades 6-8 for Middle School and grades 9-12 for High School. The schools are located in the Banning Lewis Ranch neighborhood, which was built years later after the original school opened. For enrolling in the school, admission is usually done by lottery. The school's mascot is a stallion.

Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a nationally recognized system of public libraries serving a population of more than 650,000 across 2,070 square miles in El Paso County, Colorado. Pikes Peak Library District has resources for children, teens, adults, and seniors. Library resources are available in multiple languages, large print, audio, video, and electronic formats.

El Paso County is the most populous county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. The 2020 Census recorded its population as 730,395, surpassing the City and County of Denver. The county seat is Colorado Springs, the second most populous city in Colorado. El Paso County is included in the Colorado Springs, Colorado, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Black Forest is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Black Forest CDP was 15,097 at the United States Census 2020. Both the Colorado Springs post office (Zip Code 80908) and the Elbert post office (Zip Code 80106) serve the area.The Black Forest is named for a dense stand of Ponderosa Pine in the area. In 2006, residents voted against a proposal to incorporate as a city.

Banning-Lewis Ranches was a successful cattle-ranching operation located east of Colorado Springs, managed by Raymond W. Lewis and Ruth Banning Lewis. The Lewises eventually acquired more than 30,000 acres on which Colorado Domino Type Herefords were raised. They won the Colorado Soil Conservation program award in 1948.The city limits of Colorado Springs were extended to encompass Banning Lewis Ranch in 1988. Efforts to develop the ranch into a residential community that could house up to 175,000 residents, and/or perform oil and gas exploration, have had limited success. 300 homes have been built on the northwest corner of the property, but the owners filed for bankruptcy in 2010. This lack of development has been used as an argument against spending at least $2.1 billion to build the "Southern Delivery System" water pipeline. As of 2015 the housing market in Colorado Springs exploded and now many new houses, mostly in the $300-$500,000 price range have been built with more under construction each day. In 2017, the housing market shows no signs of slowing down. Banning Lewis Ranch now has two schools, Banning Lewis Ranch Academy and Banning Lewis Prepratory Academy, with Banning Lewis Preparatory Academy opened in 2017, an activity center, two pools and a water park, walking trails and parks. It is one of the fastest-growing communities in Colorado Springs.

Black Forest School or Old Log School of Black Forest is a historic school in Black Forest, Colorado. It is a National Register of Historic Places listing and is one of the schools on a multiple submission of "Rural School Buildings in Colorado" for the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.Between 1922 and 1945 the building was used as a school house, church and community center building. The school closed in 1945. It was a residence for a county worker and his family from 1947 to 1977. The Friends of the Black Forest Log School was formed to save and restore the building. By 2000, the restoration of the school house was completed and, it is now used for community activities and tours.