[1] The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, which departs from the depot at 6,570 feet (2,000 m) in elevation, climbs into Englemann Canyon along Ruxton Creek.

[4] He then began expansion of the cabin along Ruxton Creek that eventually was the Halfway Hotel with 22 rooms[5] and was run by John Palsgrove by 1903.

[11] Halfway House, "far from half way to the summit,... is a rustic mountain hotel surrounded by a grove of stately pines, and towering above it, the pinnacled rocks of Hell[s] Gate, through whose portal the train then passes.

[7] In 1925, a water utility power plant was built for $16,866 equivalent to $293,027 in 2023[16] and opened in Ruxton Park by the city of Colorado Springs.

[a] A caretakers house was built in 1930 and from that time to 2008, nine Colorado Springs Utilities employees have lived there six months of the year, running the Ruxton Hydroelectric Plant and taking measurements for the National Weather Service.