Woodland Park, Colorado

The City of Woodland Park is a Home Rule Municipality that is the most populous city in Teller County, Colorado, United States and is immediately west of El Paso County and the unincorporated community of Crystola. Many residents in this bedroom community, which is surrounded by the one-million acre (4,000 km²) Pike National Forest, make the 17mi commute to Colorado Springs. Ute Pass lies 12mi to the west of Woodland Park on US 24. The population was 6,515 at the 2000 census. Nearby Douglas County is about a fifteen-minute drive from the city.A post office called Woodland Park has been in operation since 1890. The community was named for the abundance of trees near the original town site.GeographyWoodland Park is located at the eastern intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and State Highway 67. (The highways overlap west to Divide.)According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.7sqmi, all of it land.