Upper Bear Creek

History

The Upper Bear Creek area is rich in history - Troutdale in the Pines, a posh resort hotel, catered to Hollywood movie stars and America's elite in the 1920s and served as a vacation spot for Denverites escaping the summer heat. Other summer resorts sprang up in the area as well, including the Greystone Guest Ranch and the Brookforest Inn. Additionally, the Mt. Evans Outdoor Lab School, a campus of the Jefferson County Public Schools, is located in the Upper Bear Creek area. Many Jeffco 6th graders will spend a week at Mt. Evans, or the other outdoor lab school, Windy Peak, where they stay in cabins or dorms and study various aspects of the outdoors, including forestry, astronomy, ecology, and pioneer history, among others.

Geography

The Upper Bear Creek CDP has an area of , including of water. Corral Creek has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), with long, snowy winters and warm but relatively short summers that are more characteristic of a subalpine climate (Köppen Dfc).

Most-observed species

• Mountain Chickadee

  Poecile gambeli (Ridgway, 1886) · Aves
  13,113
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  12,957
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird

  Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  11,666
• Dark-eyed Junco

  Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  11,372
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  10,980
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  10,375
• Pygmy Nuthatch

  Sitta pygmaea Vigors, 1839 · Aves
  10,254
• Steller's Jay

  Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  9,908

Most recent

• M 3 — 2025-10-17
  11 km NNE of Black Forest, Colorado
• M 2.7 — 2025-06-13
  7 km SE of Erie, Colorado
• M 2.5 — 2020-10-24
  2 km ESE of Georgetown, Colorado
• M 2.9 — 2008-02-26
  29 km WNW of Westcreek, Colorado