Cheyenne Mountain
A noticeable feature on the top of one of Cheyenne Mountain's peaks is an antenna farm with transmitters for cellular phone, radio, television, and law enforcement purposes.Native Americans found that Cheyenne Mountain was a good source of wood for teepee poles.[16][18][c] The first mining claims granted for El Paso County were for the Manganese and Rio Grande lodes on Cheyenne Mountain by January 31, 1885.[21] Also at that time, a carriage road went to Seven Lakes and the summit of Pikes Peak from Cheyenne Mountain.He developed a series of trails and rest houses that led to The Sunshine Inn that he built as a health resort above Old Stage Road.It first started as a summer retreat for the educators, and grew to include musicians, doctors, artists, generals, oilmen, and an ambassador to India.Swisher's cabin was near the present site of the antenna farm at the top of the mountain, which was accessed by Old Stage Road.It had a restaurant, a suite for Penrose on the third floor, four guest rooms, and living quarters for servants.[29]: 92 In the 1950s, during the Cold War, the interior of the mountain became a site for the operations center for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).It was built to withstand being bombed: eleven multiple-story buildings stand on coil springs to absorb the shock of a blast, and care was taken to make sure that up to 800 people could survive a nuclear exchange.[11]: 1 After the Cold War, NORAD monitored objects orbiting the Earth and aircraft without flight plans.[3][11]: 2 Edmonds, John Browne, and Buck Ingersoll agreed to replace the trails to the area with a real road, which was opened in 1960 by the Cheyenne Propagation Company.[3] There are 700 cell phone, television, radio, and law enforcement transmitters on the antenna farm.[3] The Cheyenne Mountain radio site 145.160 repeater covers south central and southeast Colorado along the Interstate 25 corridor from Monument nearly to the New Mexico border.South Cheyenne Creek's source, also in Teller County, is Mount Big Chief,[39][40][41] near St. Peter's Dome.In 1909 the Park Commission called it "by far the grandest and most popular of all the beautiful cañons near the city" for its evergreen trees, waterfalls, Cheyenne Creek, and rock formations.
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