Staunton State Park won't be open to the public until after an extensive public planning process is completed and the park infrastructure is built. That may be a couple years. But eventually, this will be the 43rd Colorado State Park...

The property contains some 3,652 acres which includes many dramatic rock outcroppings, a few streams and Elk Falls, a waterfall in a beautiful but narrow rocky defile. The State Park is a conglomeration of three historic ranches and is a patchwork of grasslands, meadows, forest and woodlands on the edge of Pike National Forest.

Typical rock outcropping at Staunton State Park