Cripple Creek, Colorado Weather
Cripple Creek, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cripple Creek, Teller County.
Full aviation weather for Cripple Creek is published on the Fremont County Airport (K1V6) page, 36 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of Cripple Creek have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Cripple Creek: Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field (KFCS) 37 km · USAF Academy Airfield (KAFF) 40 km · City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (KCOS) 42 km · Meadow Lake Airport (KFLY) 57 km
Conditions reported at K1V6 describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cripple Creek specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cripple Creek.
About Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek rests in a high mountain basin, an amphitheater of granite and pine where the sky feels vast and the air, even in summer, carries a crisp, thin edge. It lies 20.1 miles west-south-west of Colorado Springs, CO (from Colorado Springs, CO: bearing 253°T), and is situated 18.3 miles south-south-west of Woodland Park. The surrounding landscape is a rough-hewn beauty, a jumble of peaks and shadowed valleys that plunge into a raw, untamed wilderness. Jagged summits, dusted with persistent snow even in June, guard the horizon, their flanks scarred by ancient glaciers and the more recent gouges of human endeavor. Below, the drainage itself, a modest waterway that gives the town its name, winds through meadows carpeted with wildflowers in the brief, vibrant growing season, its waters reflecting the immense, ever-changing canvas of the Colorado sky. The very character of Cripple Creek is etched into this stark, magnificent terrain, a place where the elements hold sway and the land dictates the terms of existence. The spirit of Cripple Creek is inextricably bound to the gold that once flowed from its earth, a history that whispers from the weathered facades of its Victorian-era buildings and echoes in the remnants of its once-booming mines. This was a place of fevered dreams and fortunes made and lost, a frontier town that pulsed with the raw energy of discovery. Today, while the pickaxes may be largely silent, that legacy endures, fueling a different kind of economy, one that draws visitors to its casinos and the echoes of its wild past. The air still hums with a sense of tenacious resilience, a testament to the people who have weathered boom and bust, their lives as rugged and enduring as the mountains that cradle Cripple Creek.
Live animated radar for Cripple Creek and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38.746656°N, 105.178315°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 80813 |
| Area Code | 970 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cripple Creek, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cripple Creek, Colorado, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cripple Creek includes coordinates 38.746656°N, 105.178315°W, situated in Teller County. ZIP code 80813. Telephone area code: 970. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
