Homestake Creek is a tributary of the Eagle River in Eagle County, Colorado . Homestake Dam impounds one of the creek's tributaries, Middle Fork Homestake Creek. Homestake Creek itself begins just below the dam, at the confluence of its east and middle forks.
6-630: Homestake may refer to: Homestake Creek , in Eagle County, Colorado Homestake experiment , an experiment headed by astrophysicists Raymond Davis, Jr. and John N. Bahcall in the late 1960s Homestake Pass , a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the United States Homestake Mining Company , one of the largest gold mining businesses in
12-513: A road that branches off from Homestake Road. These two areas were part of the Holy Cross Mining District. The road through the valley is 10.82 miles (17.41 kilometers) long and has a starting elevation of 8,938 feet (2,724 meters) and an ending elevation of 10,278 feet (3,133 meters). It is popular with winter sports enthusiasts, especially snowshoers , cross-country skiers , and snowmobilers . Elk are known to winter in
18-543: The White River National Forest and over some private land. The Holy Cross Wilderness surrounds the valley. A glacial valley, it is known for its diversity of animals and plants and for its fens , a type of wetland. The road through the valley, Homestake Road, was built in the 1880s, originally as a stagecoach road to reach the gold mining camp at Gold Park (now a Forest Service campground) and partway to extinct towns such as Holy Cross City via
24-738: The Homestake Dam, the creek flows northeast down the Homestake Valley, generally following Homestake Road (Forest Road 703.1). The valley ends at U.S. Highway 24 , and from here the creek generally follows the highway towards the north, to its confluence with the Eagle River at Red Cliff, Colorado , below the Red Cliff Bridge . The creek flows through the Homestake Valley in Eagle County, Colorado and within
30-638: The United States from the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st Homestake Mine (disambiguation) , the name for several mines in the United States Homestake Reservoir , in Colorado, U.S. Homestake, a formation on Mars analyzed by Opportunity rover , which was concluded to be formed of gypsum Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
36-490: The title Homestake . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homestake&oldid=1237195280 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Homestake Creek From its origination point just below
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