Red Canyon Park

Welcome To Red Canyon Park.
This cache is the first of many throughout this Park. They will all take you to some very interesting areas. Swag in container includes Hotwheels Car, 2 Dinosaurs and a Geocoin for the FTF Enjoy!!

This 600 acre City Park with all its amazing red rock formations was once owned by a man named Guy Hardy, who was an editor and publisher of the Canon City Daily Record in 1895. He was also Postmaster for Canon City from June 5 1900 to July 30 1904. He soon was elected as Republican to the Sixty-sixth and six succeeding Congresses from March 1919 to March 1933. It was in 1923 when he gave what is now Red Canyon Park to Canon City to use as a city park. This was thought to be a political stunt for his reelection in 1932. His reelection to office never happened.
Having a park so far out of the city limits posed a problem because it was only accessible through private land owned by Tom Coleman.
. Tom Coleman was one of the local sheriffs for Fremont County from 1958 to 1966. At the end of 1949 he sold a part of his land to local rancher and Pro Rodeo Champion, Jim Like. Two of the most famous red rock formations are located on this ranch and were never part of the park, but were always part of the surrounding deeded land. The ownership of the formations was challenged, but county surveyors were called out and the formations were found to belong to rancher Jim Like.
Before Tom Coleman’s term as Sheriff, he gave some of his land to Canon City for access to Red Canyon Park. This was published in the May 16 1951 issue of the Canon City Daily Record. Today, this park is enjoyed by many and used by local ranchers for grazing cattle.
As you hike or drive though this park, please be respectful to this beautiful landscape and its neighbors.