First visited September 2000

The Iron Spring stands in its own slated roofed wooden house at the top of Ruxton Avenue just before you get to the Pike’s Peak Cog Railway.  It is a characterful spring bubbling up at will, the first day we visited it seemed full of enthusiasm for life and springing and on the second slightly bored with the world and disgruntled with its visitors. 

Of all the springs it is the least palatable, pretty horrible to be honest, but still in the 1800s doctors issued their patients with prescriptions to drink from it. And if the taste is anything to go by it must be incredibly good for you. 

Update January 2001

Unlike several other springs which had been turned off the Iron Geyser was simmering happily 
in its snowy hideaway. 

The Iron Geyser in the 1880s.
Photograph thanks to the Old Colorado City Historical Society

  

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