page_title: Trapper's Trail
section_title: Denver area to Colorado Springs area
hierarchical_section_title: Trapper's Trail / Route description / Denver area to Colorado Springs area
caption_attribution_description: Denver in 1859
context_page_description: The Trapper's Trail or Trappers' Trail is a north-south path along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains that links the Great Platte River Road at Fort Laramie and the Santa Fe Trail at Bent's Old Fort. Along this path there were a number of trading posts, also called trading forts.
context_section_description: There are three trails between these areas. The oldest route, runs the closest to the mountains. It follows along the East Plum, Monument and Fountain Creeks and roughly ran along what is now I-25.
  The Cherry Creek Trail follows Cherry Creek and runs essentially along the current Highway 83 between present day Denver and northern Colorado Springs near I-25. There are two stops along the Cherry Creek Trail. Twenty Mile House, located at the junction of Parker Road and Highway 83 in Parker, has a historical marker noting it was a stop on Trapper's Trail. California Ranch was a stage station and stockade at the junction of Highways 83 and 86 near Franktown. It also has a historical marker its role on the trail.
  The Jimmy Camp Trail joins the Cherry Creek Trail near the present town of Franktown, runs through Falcon, and down Highway 24. The trail runs between the Arkansas and Platte Rivers. Jimmy's Camp site (now a ghost town in El Paso County) is east of Highway 24 at Jimmy Camp Creek. The Charles Fagan Grave, also called Fagan's Grave, is about 12.5 miles due north of Falcon.
caption: Denver in 1859
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