Cascade is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

Tourists traveled through Ute Pass on the Colorado Midland Railway, experiencing scenic views of Cascade canon and its falls during their journey.

Cascade remains a tourist destination, with visitors staying in inns, bed and breakfasts, cottages and guest houses.

Eliza Marriott Hewlett, the oldest of three sisters, left the state of New York for Colorado in the 1880s,[4] and brought her two children with her to Cascade before it was a town.

[5] It was quite uncommon for "ladies of leisure" to have moved to Colorado during this period; It was theorized that the women "may have come because of the publicity lent to the area by such romantic writers of the day as Helen Hunt..., who extolled the beauties of the Pikes Peak region.

[4] In the 1880s, there were also people in the Cascade Canyon area that ran businesses delivering supplies via mule trains to the Leadville and Cripple Creek mining towns.

The canon is about three-quarters of a mile long and very deep; its floor and sides are covered with an exceptionally luxuriant growth of trees, shrubbery, and flowers.

This exceptional vegetation is produced by the flow of Cascade creek through the canon and the mist and spray from its falls.

The carriage road company went bankrupt following the success of the Manitou and Pike's Peak Cog Railway that opened in 1892.

[4][6] The Cascade Town and Improvement Company was founded and, with Eliza Hewlett, contributed to the cost of the development of the Pikes Peak Carriage Road.

[1] Ute Park, now Chipita, Green Mountain Falls and Crystola were also developed in this time period.

[4] Eastholme, a boarding room and small hotel was built between 1885 and 1887, by Eliza Marriot Hewlett and her sisters.

[6] The town was closest to the origin of the Waldo Canyon Fire in 2012, and volunteer firefighters from Cascade were among the first to respond.

Fountain Creek flows off the slopes of Pikes Peak into the town, and turns southeast into a canyon.

[6] The town's lodging includes Adobe Inn at Cascade, Eastholme in the Rockies bed and breakfast inn, Rocky Mountains Lodge and Cabins,[10][14][15][16] Cascade Escapes,[17] and Happy Trails Vacation Rentals.

In 2012 there were concerns raised about a 3-mile section of the trail, that has been planned to include a trailhead, along a US Highway 24 frontage road in Cascade.