# Cathedral Rock

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cathedral-rock/

- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Living today
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0294, -104.9014 (USGS GNIS point for the feature itself (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Sandstone formation on the Air Force Academy where early settlers 'carved their names in stone'; on a 2011 Palmer Lake Historical Society walk members read 'the names of early settlers scratched into the rock,' some from the 1870s, and one found his great-grandfather's (PLHS newsletters, 2011 and 2012, S-0002). It gave its name to Lawrence Lehman's Cathedral Rock Ranch, 'the biggest single piece of property' in the 1954 Academy site (News, June 16, 1954, S-0146); Academy freshmen now run to it at the end of Recognition (Wikipedia, S-0150).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS pillar 'Cathedral Rock', El Paso County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007). Good to a few hundred feet.

## Sources

- S-0002: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0002
- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0007: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0007
- S-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0048: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0048
- S-0146: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0146
- S-0150: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0150

## Nearby

- [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 2.9 mi east
- [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 3.0 mi northeast
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 3.1 mi east
- [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 3.2 mi southeast
- [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 3.3 mi northeast
- [Monument Nursery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/): 3.8 mi north

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.