Cathedral Rock

Cathedral (or Gray) Rock is composed of the same white sandstone as White Rock. Features visible on top of the rock include Hound's Head and Stagecoach & Horses. Cathedral Rock received its name even before the founding of Colorado Springs. When George C. Anderson passed through in 1871 he thought it had "the appearance of a huge Cathedral with pinnacles and turrets pointing to the sky."

Cathedral Rock

On the backside of Cathedral Rock is a natural depression, which is thought to have been once used as a game run - with the elk or buffalo herded through the narrow entrance on the south side of the rock, to be shot with arrows by Native Americans who lined the ledges on either side of the narrow canyon. The many projectile points and scrappers found on the canyon floor seem to prove out this theory.

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Source: "Touring Kansas and Colorado in 1871: the Journal of George C. Anderson." Kansas Historical Quarterly, Vol.XII, No.4, Winter 1956.