Loud's Cabin & Seven Bridges Trail, North Cheyenne Creek

If you liked the music in this video it’s from the 1972 classic ‘Jeremiah Johnson’, one of the greatest westerns ever made,
The route to the cabin can be found on AllTrails. Please leave the cabin artifacts where you found them. I took a back route to the parking lot (via Gold Camp Road). This road is easily accessible for 2WD, but is only open after snow season. The normal route is driving up North Cheyenne Canyon.
Here’s a brief history of the places seen in this video…
Gold Camp Road
The Gold Camp Road Tunnels were constructed during the 1800s to help support the ongoing Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Connecting Cripple Creek to Colorado Springs, a railway was laid down on the route that is now Gold Camp Road. Known as the “Short Line,” train service began in 1901, with 200 freight cars used to haul minerals, supplies, and people throughout the area.
As an incredibly scenic voyage, the Short Line Railroad route also served passengers in various comfort cars. While it can be hard to describe such an experience in words, President Theodore Roosevelt has been cited as saying that a trip on the Short Line ”bankrupts the English language.”
In 1922, the Short Line railroad was sold at auction and converted into the Corley Mountain Highway. Opening in 1924, the toll road allowed passenger cars to drive through the tunnels that had been originally carved for the railroad. On May 6, 1939, the route became a free public road and remained open to vehicular travel until 1988 when a portion of tunnel #3 collapsed in on itself.
Loud’s Cabin
Loud’s Cabin, otherwise known as Chipmunk Lodge, was built in 1902 by Colorado College Professor Frank Herbert Loud. With several small buildings erected in the area by Mr. Loud, the Chipmunk Lodge is the last remaining accessible structure to the public. An eight foot stone chimney stands amongst toppled logs that make for an exciting sight to end a hike.
A descendant of one of the Pilgrim Fathers, Loud was educated at Amhurst College, and taught there briefly before joining the young Colorado College faculty in its third year, in 1877. At first his job title veered according to what was needed (he appears as 'mathematics and metaphysics' early on, and 'mental philosophy; mathematics; meteorology' in 1879) before settling down to 'Professor of mathematics and astronomy' by the mid 1880s. He was also the College's first Librarian, from 1878 to 1886.
Katherine Lee Bates
A regular visitor to Loud Cabin (Chipmunk Lodge) Bates was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem “America the Beautiful”, but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker. In 1893, she decided to go on a trip to 14,115-foot Pikes Peak and hired a prairie wagon. This became her inspiration for the poem Pikes Peak, which later became the America the Beautiful anthem.
Helen Hunt Falls Visitor Center
In 1881 the Bruin Inn was built at the base of Helen Hunt Falls. An outbuilding of the Bruin Inn was turned into a visitor center and curio shop. Being the smaller of the two facilities it became known as "The Cub." The Cub survived the fire that destroyed the Bruin Inn. "The Cub" remained to serve as a visitor center by the falls, which were officially designated Helen Hunt Falls in 1966.
Over the years the old Cub building had been deteriorated badly. In 2012 the old Cub building was torn down and a new Cub built - new, but very similar in design and atmosphere to the old Cub. The grand opening was held on Sept. 8, 2012.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican-American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause.
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