place

Old Mountain View, Colorado

Former populated places in El Paso County, ColoradoUse mdy dates from March 2024
Rounding Windy Pt. Manitou & P.P. Ry., Colo
Rounding Windy Pt. Manitou & P.P. Ry., Colo

Old Mountain View, also known as Mountain View, was a railway station in El Paso County, Colorado at 9,636 feet (2,937 m) in altitude. Beginning in 1891, it was a stop on the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway between Manitou Springs and Pikes Peak. Butterworth Flat, Minnehaha, Half-Way House, Ruxton Park, Windy Point, and Saddle House, were also stops on the line to the summit. Pike’s Peak Daily News was published at Old Mountain View with the names and addresses of the passengers who traveled the cog railway. At more than 9,600 feet (2,900 m), it was called "The Most Elevated Publication on Earth". It was published from June 1891 to 1922 or later.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Old Mountain View, Colorado (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Old Mountain View, Colorado
Lake Moraine,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Old Mountain View, ColoradoContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 38.833888888889 ° E -104.99138888889 °
placeShow on map

Address

Lake Moraine

Lake Moraine

Colorado, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Rounding Windy Pt. Manitou & P.P. Ry., Colo
Rounding Windy Pt. Manitou & P.P. Ry., Colo
Share experience

Nearby Places

United States Army Pikes Peak Research Laboratory
United States Army Pikes Peak Research Laboratory

The U.S. Army Pikes Peak Research Laboratory, or simply the "Pikes Peak Lab", is a modern medical research laboratory for the assessment of the impact of high altitude on human physiological and medical parameters of military interest. It is a satellite facility of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), located in Natick, Massachusetts. The Pikes Peak Lab is at the summit of Pikes Peak 14,115 feet (4,302 m) in central Colorado, USA. The summit is approximately 5 acres (2.0 ha) of relatively flat, rocky terrain and is directly and easily accessible by automobile via the Pikes Peak Highway. The lab has been maintained by USARIEM since 1969 and is a building of 2,267 sq ft (210.6 m2). floor space divided into a kitchen and dining/day room, common area bathroom and shower, and common area sleeping quarters accommodating up to 16 research volunteers, a wet laboratory, a research area, and a mechanical room housing steel storage tanks for water and sewage. The building is well insulated and protected from the elements, supplied with electrical power, and heated by natural gas. Also occupying the summit is the commercially operated lodging, the Summit House, for the 500 to 3000 tourists who come daily to the summit in the summer time by car, cog railway, or trail hiking. US Forest Service rangers of the Pike National Forest have general administrative oversight of the greater area. The Pikes Peak Lab was renamed the USARIEM Maher Memorial Altitude Laboratory in honor of John T. Maher, Ph.D., director of USARIEM's Altitude Research Division from 1981 to 1983.