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Moving to Ft. Carson? Here’s some info for our new soldiers and their families

Moving to Ft. Carson soon? 

Here are some helpful sites and info to make it as smooth as possible.

• An early history of Ft. Carson

look for the statue of Kit Carson also located by the main gate

Ft. Carson Army Base is also known as The Mountain Post and is located in the southwestern part of Colorado Springs.  The main gate is located at I-25 and South Academy, though there are many gates to the base.  The base extends past Fountain, where they are building a new improved gate (Gate 20) for all the new soldiers and their families who will be relocating here.

Quite a few of you will probably live on base and you might like to know what the housing it like.  Feel free to check out the housing page.  Don’t forget to check out the wonderful info located on the about page.  If you plan on living off base and would like to purchase a home or get more info on the possibility of owning a home, please take a look at searching for homes.

Children on Ft. Carson attend the Fountain/Ft. Carson school district 8, where three of their elementary and one of their middle schools are actually on base.  The high school (Fountain/Ft. Carson High School) is located in Fountain just a short drive from the Mountain Post.  You can also start your enrollment process before you arrive, as the school district is very adept at this.  They’ve had a lot of practice over the years.

If you plan on living off base and in Colorado Springs, its nice to know that all utilities excepts garbage comes in one bill (remember, this applies only to the city of Colorado Springs.  Other towns may be set up differently).  To get your utilities hooked up check out the utilities site.  If you would like to receive a local paper, check out The Gazette.

For information on what to see and do (and there’s plenty of that here), check out the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors page.

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Kathy (719-287-1049)   KTorline@msn.com

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