# Brush Corral

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/
- Also known as: camping place
- Kind: Other sites
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0125, -104.6117 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

A corral attributed to Capt. Randolph Marcy's expedition after the blizzard of April 30, 1858, later used by freighters' oxen and mules hauling lumber from the Finley mill on Black Squirrel Creek (von Ahlefeldt p. 20, from the Voorhees diary).

## Where it was

'Brush Corral Camping Place': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet); shares Scott's symbol with Weir Mill. von Ahlefeldt: 'very near' Latigo's equestrian center and the Weir Mill (p. 97).

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.0 mi southwest
- [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.4 mi northeast
- [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 0.6 mi southeast
- [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 0.8 mi northeast
- [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.2 mi northwest
- [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 3.7 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.