Hardscrabble Creek (Arkansas River)

Hardscrabble Creek is a tributary of the Arkansas River that flows from Custer County, Colorado near Wetmore to its mouth in Fremont County, Colorado, near Florence.

[1] It was previously called Rio Peñasco Amarillo.

[2] Four Hardscrabble Creek streams are found in the Hardscrabble Mountain and Wetmore area:

Eastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Taken from the Custer and Huerfano county line along Colorado State Highway 69 , from left to right: Marble Mountain , Crestone Peak , Humboldt Peak , and Colony Baldy . Hardscrabble Creek flows from Crestone Peak.