Carpenter is an extinct coal mining town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States, twelve miles (19.3 km) northeast of Grand Junction at the end of an extension to 27¼ Road.

As a result of the town's rapid growth, a request to the U.S. post office to establish a branch there in June 1890 was quickly obliged and the community was officially dubbed Carpenter.

He envisioned it as a tourist resort complete with hotel, dance pavilion, picnic areas and even a lake that was to be fed by a spring, located near his Book Cliff mines.

It was variously referred to as Polen, Pollen, and Polan Springs, although Carpenter's intended name was evidenced by his having it emblazoned on the side of one of his railroad excursion cars.

The old eating house, referred to as the Hotel de Carpenter on occasion, was converted into a school and church for the camp's inhabitants, and many company structures were rebuilt and improved during Wyman's tenure as owner.