Ruxton Creek

Ruxton Creek is a stream in Manitou Springs in El Paso County, Colorado.

[1] Named for British explorer and writer of the southwest, George Fredrick Augustus Ruxton, it is one of three main drainage basins in Manitou Springs.

Ruxton Creek flows out of Englemann Canyon and into the town of Manitou Springs.

[2] Ruxton Creek is located in the Arkansas River Watershed on the south slope of Pikes Peak.

Four years later an electric trolley line provided transportation from Manitou Avenue to the railway depot.