page_title: Castlewood Canyon State Park
section_title: Wildlife, ecology, and geography
hierarchical_section_title: Castlewood Canyon State Park / Wildlife, ecology, and geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking north from the former "lake bottom" to the remains of Castlewood Dam in Castlewood Canyon State Park, Colorado, U.S.A.
context_page_description: Castlewood Canyon State Park is a Colorado state park near Franktown, Colorado. The park retains a unique part of Colorado's history, the remains of Castlewood Canyon Dam. Visitors can still see the remnants and damage from that dam which burst in 1933. The event sent a 15-foot wave of water all the way to downtown Denver resulting in a flood. Also contained within the park is the historic Cherry Creek Bridge.
context_section_description: Among the many species living in the park are coyote, cottontail rabbit, red fox, black bear, prairie rattlesnake, mountain lion, meadow jumping mouse, turkey vulture, golden eagle, prairie falcon, virile crayfish, Woodhouse's toad and the northern leopard frog.
  Ecosystem Zones in the park are grasslands, shrublands, riparian, foothills-conifer, and caprock.
  Castlewood Canyon is on the edge of the Palmer Divide, a geologically upraised area that results in more moisture falling than is normal in eastern Colorado, watering the Black Forest.
caption: Castlewood Dam Trails
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