DeLaney Farm keeps an older Aurora farmstead in view

Before Aurora filled in around it, this was working ground. DeLaney Farm sits on Chambers Road as a historic farmstead the city kept as open space, and the round barn still anchors it, joined by a community garden, trail connections, and the land that wraps around them.

What makes the spot unusual is how little it has been tidied into a museum. The old farm buildings stand where they always stood, the garden rows get planted each season, and prairie dogs and raptors work the surrounding ground while a paved trail threads through. Past and present share one address.

A round barn is itself a quiet piece of history, an old farm form you rarely see anymore, and having one survive on city open space is no small thing. Walk the trail connections and the adjacent open space and the place reads as one continuous landscape rather than a fenced-off relic.

This is the farming layer of Arapahoe County, still legible under the modern map: a piece of the prairie that grew crops before it grew subdivisions. You can stand by the round barn, look past the garden to the open space, and read a century of the area’s life in a single glance. For current hours and how to reach it, Aurora’s open-space page carries the up-to-date details.