Eastholme · Photo: Dennis Graham · CC BY-SA 3.0Cascade-Chipita Park’s library is a branch of Pikes Peak Library District, which lends more per resident than 73% of systems its size
Cascade-Chipita Park’s library is the Ute Pass Library, a branch of Pikes Peak Library District, which serves 678,684 people and lent 7.2M items last year.
What stands out about Ute Pass Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Cascade-Chipita Park’s civic life grade
Cascade-Chipita Park isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Pikes Peak Library District, so there is no town figure for visits.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
Volunteering in Cascade-Chipita Park
Cascade-Chipita Park is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
8.4%
8.4% of Cascade-Chipita Park’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.8% in the typical Colorado town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Cascade-Chipita Park’s residents live; 2022.
50% of borrowing is digital
7.2M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,556,552 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Pikes Peak Library District serves 678,684 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 179 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pikes Peak Library District system. The library’s own count.
About 47 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Ute Pass Library, 8010 Severy, Cascade.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pikes Peak Library District branch.
New in Cascade-Chipita Park? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $3.27 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cascade-Chipita Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $33M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $108M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $33M budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 305,812 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade-Chipita Park | Ute Pass Library fine-free | — | 30 | — unincorporated |
| Green Mountain Falls | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Ute Pass Library is one branch of Pikes Peak Library District, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 678,684 people it serves.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Cascade-Chipita Park
Does Cascade-Chipita Park have a public library?
Yes: Ute Pass Library, 8010 Severy, is a branch of Pikes Peak Library District, which serves 678,684 people. The branch is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pikes Peak Library District fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Cascade-Chipita Park’s library?
It logged 2.8 visits and lent 10.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Cascade-Chipita Park’s civic life grade?
Cascade-Chipita Park isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Pikes Peak Library District, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Cascade-Chipita Park.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.