South Park is a grassland flat within a basin formed by the Rocky Mountains Mosquito and Rampart mountain ranges in central Colorado, ranging in elevation from about 9,000 to 10,000 feet. It covers roughly 1,000 square miles around the headwaters of the South Platte River in Park County, about 60 miles southwest of Denver, and is the largest and southernmost of three similarly named high elevation basins in the Front Range, the others being North Park and Middle Park. The largest town in the basin is Fairplay, with a population of 724.
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