Cripple Creek is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in the
U.S. state of
Colorado.
Cripple Creek was named for the fact livestock frequently became injured crossing the stream.
It passes through the city limits of
Cripple Creek, Colorado, although portions of the original creekbed are no longer visible due to construction of casinos and parking lots.
It receives the outflow of the Roosevelt Tunnel, a drainage tunnel that lowered the water table by 1,500 feet throughout the Cripple Creek gold mining district.
See also
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List of rivers of Colorado
References
Rivers of Teller County, Colorado
Rivers of Colorado
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