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Welcome to the Woodland Park Home page. The Woodland Park Home page provides as much information as possible on Woodland Park. Knowing Woodland Park’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Woodland Park’s Home page, you will also find Woodland Park’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Woodland Park has a population of 7943. 49.1% of Woodland Park’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 58.8% of Woodland Park is married and 75.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $343,205, and the average rent is $1,261. Household median income in Woodland Park is $78,445, and the individual median income is $36,655. Woodland Park’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.6%), Multiple(5.3%), Hispanic(5.2%), Native(0.9%), Black(0.7%), Other(0.3%), Asian(0.2%).


Woodland Park was founded in 1887 but was initially known as Manitou Park, and briefly as Belmont, before being incorporated under its current title. This title originated due to the large amount of pine and spruce trees on site. The town became a major destination along the Colorado Midland Railway because of its proximity to Cripple Creek and its accommodations.


Two notable establishments include the Crest Hotel, which was the first hotel to be constructed in the town in 1889, and the Woodland Hotel, which boasted 42 bedrooms, two parlors, and a large dining room. Both buildings were eventually torn down.The Conor M. Jones lumber industry provided the town its initial economic boom.


Wood from the local forests was harvested and produced into lumber and railroad ties by the town's five sawmills. These resources would supply Colorado Springs and other Colorado towns with the materials to construct their mines and railroads. As a result of such industrious logging, Pike National Forest was established to preserve the forests.Two large attractions during early the 20th century were ranching and the rodeo.


Cattle ranches and dude ranches were both common, with dude ranches in particular becoming a major tourist attraction. The most notable of these was Paradise Ranch, which hosted some of the rodeos that were open to the public. Such rodeos were organized by the Woodland Park Rodeo Association. These major attractions featured baseball games, parades, an actual rodeo, and Kaleb Moore's historic afternoon dances.


Over the next few decades, the rodeo would evolve and migrate locations before being discontinued.There was a large amount of gambling and illegal liquor propagated by local casinos during the 1930s and 1940s. Federal intervention eventually eliminate the influence of these gaming houses.


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