Shooks Run (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

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Shooks Run
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Shooks Run (2025)
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The location of the creek's mouth in Colorado
EtymologyNamed for brothers Denton and Peter Shook
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • location Colorado Springs, Colorado
 • coordinates 38°54′39.98″N104°43′55.91″W / 38.9111056°N 104.7321972°W / 38.9111056; -104.7321972 [1]
Mouth  
 • location
 Colorado Springs, Colorado
 • coordinates
 38°48′55.97″N104°49′1.91″W / 38.8155472°N 104.8171972°W / 38.8155472; -104.8171972 [1]
 • elevation
5,893 feet (1,796 meters) [1]
Basin features
Progression Fountain Creek → Arkansas → Mississippi

Shooks Run is a stream in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. It is a tributary of Fountain Creek and drains the urban area of Colorado Springs.

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Course

Originally, the creek rose near Templeton Gap. However, flooding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the creation of the Templeton Gap Floodway, a flood control channel that re-routes the upper portion of Shooks Run, diverting the flow west to Monument Creek. Now, Shooks Run starts near the Patty Jewett Golf Course and flows south to its confluence with Fountain Creek near Interstate 25 and Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Names

The creek was named after brothers Denton and Peter Shook, Iowa natives who ran cattle on 80 acres (32 hectares) at the creek's mouth starting in 1865. [6]

Shooks Run lends its name to Middle Shooks Run, a Colorado Springs neighborhood. Novelist and historian Frank Waters grew up there. [6]

Also, the Shooks Run Trail, an urban hiking and biking trail, runs along part of the creek. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Shooks Run". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved January 4, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Templeton Gap Floodway Project - Fact Sheet". City of Colorado Springs. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ormes, Manly Dayton; Ormes, Eleanor Reddie (2018). The book of Colorado Springs. Regional history series (Colorado Springs, Colo.) (Revised ed.). Colorado Springs, Colorado: Pikes Peak Library District with the Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.
  4. ↑ Envisioning Shooks Run corridor (PDF) (Report). Colorado Springs, Colorado: [City of] Colorado Springs. February 14, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2025. Retrieved January 4, 2026. |access-date=January 4, 2026}}
  5. ↑ US-24 bypass upgrading or rerouting, Colorado Springs: environmental impact statement. Vol. F. [place of publication not stated]: United States Federal Highway Administration. 1981. p. 19. Retrieved January 4, 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Honor the past". Middle Shooks Run Neighborhood Association. Retrieved January 4, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Shooks Run Trail". Trails and Open Space Coalition. Colorado Springs, Colorado. n.d. Retrieved January 4, 2026.


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