Wednesday – Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The Bear Creek Dog Park was established in 1997 in response to citizens and park patrons as an off-leash voice-command dog park.  The Dog Park encompasses approximately 25 acres and is presently fenced on three sides of the park with the final portion of fencing to be installed during the second quarter of 2006.  With Bear Creek running along the south side, dogs may enjoy a drink from the mountain creek.  Through fundraising efforts from El Paso County Parks and LOOP (Lovers of Off-leash Parks), a local citizen group, a Small Dog Area was created during the late Fall of 2005.  The area is just under two acres and is adjacent to Bear Creek with steps and a handrail leading to the creek. It is completely fenced with two double-entry vesitbules to protect small dogs from the larger ones.  Bear Creek Dog Park is located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and the base of Pikes Peak with an elevation change of at least 100 feet going from the north boundary to the south boundary. The terrain provide dogs and their owners a variety of exercise options.

Relentless prairie winds, sandstone-capped spires  and hoodoos, colorful  hues of  clay, and  distant coyote calls beckon  visitors to this quiet landscape.  As hikers venture from the trailhead into the distant reaches, the Paint  Mines offers a journey through time, past  fascinating  geological formations and remnants of human history, in a unique ecological setting within the rolling plains of eastern El Paso County.  The Paint  Mines Interpretive Park, located in Colorado’s eastern  prairie, is  a rare, geologically fragile, and ecologically rich landscape  of labyrinthine gulches and monoliths,  perennial wetlands, and native grass meadows.  The park contains unique geological, archeological, historical, and ecological resources that are all interrelated, thereby retaining significant educational, scientific, and interpretive value.

Open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week