Tarryall Creek
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Tarryall Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 25 miles (40 km) long, in Park County in central Colorado in the United States. It drains a rural portion of north and central South Park, an intermontane grassland in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver. It rises in the high Rockies in several forks along the continental divide in the Pike National Forest southwest of Boreas Pass. It descends to the southwest through a short canyon, emerging into South Park near Como, Colorado. It crosses U.S. Highway 285 east of Red Hill Pass northeast of Fairplay, then meanders towards the southeast, joining the South Platte from the east in the southeastern corner of South Park. The creek was one of the most active locations for the prospecting of gold during the Colorado Gold Rush in 1859. The "Tarryall Diggings" and other nearby sites attracted thousands of prospectors over Kenosha Pass, and the town of Tarryall (now completely vanished) was soon founded near the creek. There are no towns along the creek today.
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