Roofing Contractor in Cascade-Chipita Park, CO

Cascade-Chipita Park is an unincorporated El Paso County CDP along Ute Pass on US 24, and its name is literally its geography: the CDP combines two separate mountain communities, Cascade (elevation 7,379 feet) and Chipita Park (elevation 7,796 feet), roughly 2.7 miles to the northwest — these are the CDP's actual component places, not subdivisions of a single town. The population is 1,628, spread across the 80809 and 80819 ZIP codes; note that 80819 is shared with neighboring Green Mountain Falls, so not every 80819 address falls inside this CDP. Nearly all of the CDP attends Manitou Springs School District 14, with a small portion in Lewis-Palmer School District 38. A notably high vacancy rate — 20% at the 2020 Census — points to a meaningful share of second and vacation homes in the area.

The forested Ute Pass corridor, bordered by Pike National Forest, gives Cascade-Chipita Park a genuine wildfire interface, and the high elevation drives real snow-load design considerations along with the steeper roof pitches typical of mountain-corridor construction for snow-shedding. Those factors — not just hail — are central to any roofing conversation here. No HOA density data was verified for either Cascade or Chipita Park, and the elevated vacancy rate suggests a meaningful share of properties are managed remotely, which can affect how quickly storm damage gets reported and inspected.

That said, hail is real too. NWS storm-spotter reports confirm 5 documented hail days within 10 miles of city center between 2021 and 2026, all measured on the ground. The largest was 2.5-inch hail measured July 20, 2023 (7 reports) — the same day NOAA radar's independent estimate matched exactly at 2.5 inches, an unusually close agreement between the two methods in this dataset. Ground crews also confirmed hail from 1.5 to 2.0 inches on three additional dates between 2023 and 2026. Even at this elevation, stones in the 1.5 to 2.5 inch range are large enough to fracture asphalt-shingle mats, and Class 4 impact-resistant shingles pair naturally with the Class A fire-rated products already common in this wildfire-exposed corridor.

Because Cascade-Chipita Park is unincorporated, residential re-roof permits are issued by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department (PPRBD), the joint city/county authority covering all of El Paso County. Red Hawk pulls the permit and handles the final inspection for both the Cascade and Chipita Park sides of the CDP.