Service ETA: 45-90 Min
Pop: 182
Alt: 9,407ft
A brief history
The Midland area takes its name from the Colorado Midland Railway, the standard‑gauge line that climbed Ute Pass in the late 1880s, linking Colorado Springs to Leadville and beyond. Camps and sidings dotted the corridor between Woodland Park and Divide.
In 1895 the Midland Terminal branched from Divide to the Cripple Creek gold district, making the corridor a key freight and passenger route for ore, timber, and supplies. When the Colorado Midland ceased operations in 1918, rail traffic dwindled; the Midland Terminal ran until 1949.
Today “Midland” refers to the wooded, residential stretch along US‑24 and the old grades — a rail heritage landscape now traveled mostly by road.