How to Search the Cripple Creek Court Docket
The city publishes no official citation or case-search form. So a Cripple Creek docket search starts with the ticket itself. Back it up with the Cripple Creek Municipal Court page, the annual dates PDF, and the municipal clerk. The court line on the citation decides everything. It points either to the city clerk or to Teller Combined Court.
Municipal case? Call the clerk with the ticket number, party name, and rough date, or go to the City Hall counter. State case? Search the Colorado docket using Teller County. Add a short date span and at least one more filter. Confirm any fuzzy date before driving into the mountains. The city makes its sessions expressly subject to weather.
- Read the court name, address, citation number, and appearance terms.
- Check the Cripple Creek annual municipal dates or city calendar.
- Call or email the municipal clerk when the ticket names city court.
- Use County=Teller on the Colorado docket when Combined Court is named.
- Confirm the date, court location, and appearance method with that clerk.
Two Cripple Creek Docket Addresses
Two court buildings stand on Bennett Avenue. That split trips up plenty of visitors. Municipal Court sits in City Council chambers at 337 E. Bennett Avenue. The Teller County Courthouse is at 101 W. Bennett Avenue. Both sit in the county seat's tight downtown. Each has its own clerk and its own docket.
A street name alone can land you at the wrong counter. Match the full address and court title printed on the ticket. The Municipal Court Clerk keeps city ordinance files plus municipal traffic and criminal matters. The Clerk of Court, Teller County Combined Court, holds the state files. County Court and District Court records both sit there. Note that the elected county Clerk and Recorder keeps neither trial-court docket.
| Address | Office | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 337 E. Bennett Avenue | Cripple Creek Municipal Court | City-code, municipal traffic, and municipal criminal cases |
| 101 W. Bennett Avenue | Teller County Combined Court | State County Court and District Court cases |
The Cripple Creek Municipal Court
Cripple Creek Municipal Court handles violations of the city's Municipal Code and ordinances, including traffic and criminal matters within its jurisdiction. Sessions take place in City Council chambers at City Hall. The clerk answers procedural questions but cannot offer legal advice. No municipal judge is named on the official page. No filing total is published either, so confirm those details rather than guess.
Write to 337 E. Bennett Avenue, P.O. Box 430, Cripple Creek, CO 80813. The listed phone is 719-689-2502, and the official page carries an email link. Include the ticket or case number, party name, approximate date, and the exact item you want. Ask about inspection, copy, and payment methods too. The city publishes no municipal copy fee.
Cripple Creek Municipal Court
337 E. Bennett Avenue, P.O. Box 430
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
719-689-2502
City Council chambers
The official municipal court source identifies the local jurisdiction, meeting pattern, clerk, and courtroom.
The picture makes the split plain: the city courtroom and the state courthouse sit a few blocks apart in Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek Docket Dates PDF
The city court page links an annual PDF of municipal court dates. That document is the closest thing to a published recurring Cripple Creek docket schedule. The city home calendar adds monthly court events. Treat both as schedule aids, then check them against the citation or notice in hand. A general annual date never proves that your matter is set. It also cannot prove the matter was not continued.
Weather wording raises the stakes. Cripple Creek holds court on the second Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. That applies unless otherwise stated and weather permits. When conditions look bad, check the city calendar and call 719-689-2502 before travel. If the ticket names Teller Combined Court, ignore the city PDF. It does not control that schedule.
Local rule of thumb: the annual date gives the municipal session, while the ticket and clerk confirm the individual case.
Cripple Creek Court Dates and Settings
The municipal session runs monthly, unlike Woodland Park's twice-monthly pattern. A proper court notice should state the date and time, the City Hall location, and what kind of appearance it is. A later notice or clerk instruction overrides earlier paper. Keep both versions so the sequence stays explainable if the city file is requested later.
State cases draw from a different setting source. Colorado Docket Search can show hearing date, start time, duration, caption, case number, hearing type, Teller location, appearance mode, and division. A blank appearance field grants no remote-attendance right. Check the latest state notice or ROA. Then call the Teller division when a setting is unclear.
| Date | The case-specific date checked against the second-Wednesday municipal schedule. |
|---|---|
| Time | The stated appearance time, with 10:00 a.m. as the usual city session time. |
| Courtroom | City Council chambers for municipal court unless directed elsewhere. |
| Weather Status | Whether the scheduled municipal session remains open and in effect. |
| Setting Type | The event purpose stated on the citation, notice, or clerk record. |
No Cripple Creek Case Portal
Statewide searches can miss valid Cripple Creek cases. City records sit apart from the state system. The city runs no official case portal with searchable fields or buttons. Your tools are the ticket, the annual dates PDF, the city calendar, the clerk's phone or email, and the City Hall counter. A broad private records site is no substitute for the municipal file.
Once the clerk confirms the case, ask what the city docket shows and how to request the record. A calendar entry is not the signed disposition. An old matter needs an approximate year. Add any prior citation number you have. If the clerk says the ticket was filed in Combined Court, switch to Colorado Docket Search and the Teller clerk rather than staying on the city channel.
- Citation and printed appearance instructions
- Annual municipal dates PDF
- Official city calendar
- Municipal clerk phone and email
- City Hall inspection or record request
Cripple Creek Traffic Tickets
One police department, two courts. Cripple Creek Municipal Court hears city traffic and criminal violations, but its officers also write citations into Teller County Combined Court. Trust the printed court name and address. City limits do not pick the payment path.
For a municipal ticket, the city clerk handles the appearance, plea, payment, and contest procedure. The city posts no public citation-pay portal or current fine table. A state ticket runs through state channels. The Fourth District payment page searches by case number, name and date of birth, or ticket number once Teller is selected. Online payment does not cancel a required court appearance.
| Ticket Says | Search and Contact Route |
|---|---|
| Cripple Creek Municipal Court | City calendar, municipal clerk, or City Hall counter |
| Teller County Combined Court | Colorado Docket Search, state payment page, and Teller clerk |
| Appearance required | Appear unless the named court expressly changes the instruction |
| No online result | Confirm routing with the clerk printed on the citation |
The Teller County traffic court records page covers the state docket, payment channels, and the court-file request route.
Cripple Creek Police, Two Dockets
A Cripple Creek police citation can land in either of two systems. A city-code offense may stay with the municipal clerk. A state-law offense may go to Teller County Court. A felony proceeds in Teller District Court. The writing agency alone tells you nothing about which clerk holds the file.
This split fuels many empty searches. Colorado's docket tool is built for state court settings. It does not cover the complete Cripple Creek municipal calendar. The municipal page cannot search the state ROA. If the first channel shows nothing, reread the court assignment. Then contact that office with the ticket number rather than treating absence as a case outcome.
- Municipal violation
- A city code or ordinance matter kept by Cripple Creek Municipal Court.
- State traffic case
- A Colorado law matter generally heard in Teller County Court.
- Register of Actions
- The chronological event index prepared for a filed Colorado state case.
- Disposition
- The recorded outcome, which should be checked against the signed order when proof is needed.
Where Cripple Creek Cases End Up
City ordinance and municipal traffic cases start in the Cripple Creek court. State misdemeanors and traffic filings use Teller County Court. Felonies land in Teller County District Court, along with other general-jurisdiction matters, and a permitted municipal appeal moves up to District Court under Colorado procedure, creating a higher-court record. None of these case files belongs in the elected county Clerk and Recorder's land-record system.
Docket flow: Cripple Creek Municipal Court › Teller County Court › Teller County District Court
The arrows show possible levels, not a required path. Most municipal matters never touch all three. Search whichever court the latest document names. If an appeal or transfer creates a new case number, ask for the official cross-reference, and see the Teller County court docket for the county and state access layers.
Cripple Creek Docket and City Hall
The 2020 Census counted 1,155 Cripple Creek residents. The county seat grew from the historic gold district. Both courts still cluster downtown. That history makes the two Bennett Avenue buildings a handy anchor for docket navigation, since City Hall hosts the monthly municipal court while the 1904 county courthouse holds the state trial courts.
The official Cripple Creek site supplies the City Hall setting and monthly calendar context.
The city view keeps the municipal docket in its own building, apart from the nearby Teller County Courthouse.
Cripple Creek Court Clerk Requests
Start with the municipal clerk for a city docket entry, a filed document, or a local disposition. State forms are the wrong tool here. The Judicial Branch form serves Teller District Court and County Court records, while Cripple Creek municipal files answer to the city clerk alone.
Describe the record you want. Do not ask for everything. Give the citation number, party name, date, and the item itself. Ask whether inspection comes before paid copies, what the current city copy charge is, and whether the copy can be certified. The clerk must quote those municipal fees directly.
A ticket marked Combined Court changes the route. Use the Teller state request form. It offers a Ticket, Register of Action, disposition or sentence order, and certification. The state clerk's ordinary response target and published fees say nothing about the city's turnaround or municipal charges.
Public Access to Cripple Creek Court Records
Access starts with the right office. The Cripple Creek clerk keeps municipal records, while the Teller Combined Court clerk handles state cases. Even a public record can contain redacted, sealed, juvenile, or otherwise protected material, and remote access is narrower than the counter.
Key rules:
Colorado Open Records Act generally addresses public records, while judicial case files use the court-specific access rules.
Chief Justice Directive 05-01 governs public access and remote limits for Colorado state court records.
PAIRR 1 and the Judicial Access Guide explain the Colorado court-record request framework.
A lawful restriction may explain a missing case. Sealed or protected status is real. The clerk can ask an authorized person for identification but cannot override a seal or protected status without legal authority.