Below are the locations of the 7 state facilities in Cañon City in the order of their emergence. For more information on a specific facility, links are included with the markers.

1. Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility – built in 1871
2. Skyline Correctional Center – built in 1964
3. Fremont Correctional Facility – built in 1980
4. Centennial Correctional Facility –  built in 1980
5. Four Mile Correctional Center – built in 1981
6. Arrowhead Correctional Center – built in 1990
7. Colorado State Penitentiary – built in 1993

Note: not pictured is Colorado State Penitentiary II, which opened in 2010 to house the growing prison population, but was closed in 2013 due to a lack of inmates. There is also a pre-release center in Cañon which opened in 1983.

Below are the four federal penitentiaries in Fremont County:

1. Federal Prison Camp – opened in 1991
2. Federal Correctional Institution, Medium Security – opened in 1993
3. United States Penitentiary, High Security – opened in 1994
4. United States Penitentiary, ADX – opened in 1994