# Pine Crest

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-crest/

- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Living today
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1125, -104.9083 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Resort in south Palmer Lake. Peter Paul Blass's cabins and 'Columbine Park' (Mrs. Blass bought 40 acres in 1897); W. C. Pickens's Pine Crest of 1908-09, with bowling alley, billiard hall, swimming pool, a pro ball team and the D&RG's old dance pavilion; Dr. Fred R. Baker's Pine Crest Inn; Newton E. Medlock from 1920; the Methodist Epworth League's conference camp from about 1928; the Salvation Army's Elephant Rock Camp in the old Inn from 1938 (Sabin, S-0019, pp. 76, 90-92, 113-14).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Populated Place 193243. The 1909 plat covered the N½NE¼ of Sec. 8, T11S R67W south of Monument and South Monument creeks (McFarling in Sabin, S-0019, p. 90 n. 10); the GNIS point falls inside it (BLM PLSS). The 1976 survey: 'pine crest, confluence of n. & s. monument creeks in palmer lake' (B55, S-0101).

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

## Sources

- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0019: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0019
- S-0073: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0073
- S-0101: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0101
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120

## Nearby

- [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 0.6 mi northwest
- [Glen Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-park/): 0.7 mi west
- [D&RG icehouses, Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/d-and-rg-icehouses-palmer-lake/): 0.7 mi north
- [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.7 mi northwest
- [Palmer Lake Town Hall (1914)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake-town-hall-1914/): 0.7 mi northwest
- [Thompson schoolhouse (1888)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/thompson-schoolhouse-1888/): 0.7 mi northwest

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