# Corral Bluffs

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/corral-bluffs/

- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Living today
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.8667, -104.5978 (USGS GNIS point for the feature itself (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Bluffs east of Colorado Springs, a state Natural Area, where Denver Museum of Nature and Science scientists have found thousands of well-preserved plant and animal fossils from the first million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, including mammal skulls in concretions and a new small omnivore, Militocodon lydae; dinosaur fossils lie at the base of the bluffs (Wikipedia, S-0150). For the geology chapter. A fringe place, about a quarter mile outside the Divide outline.

## Where it was

USGS GNIS cliff 'Corral Bluffs', El Paso County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007). Good to a few hundred feet.

## Sources

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

## Nearby

- [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 3.3 mi west
- [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 3.6 mi west
- [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 3.8 mi west
- [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 4.2 mi south
- [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.2 mi south
- [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 4.6 mi north

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