Ponderosa Park is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Elbert County, Colorado, United States.

Colorado State Highway 86 forms the southern edge of the CDP, leading east 9 miles (14 km) to Kiowa, the county seat, and west 7 miles (11 km) to Franktown.

[1] This climate type is usually found in the outskirts of true deserts in low-latitude, semiarid regions.

It has a cooler, wetter winter resulting from the higher latitude and mid-latitude frontal cyclone activity.

Annual precipitation totals are greater than in tropical and subtropical desert climates.