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denver mountain parks
15 Porch Notes tagged “denver mountain parks,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Jefferson County
Red Rocks was hand-built by Depression-era work crews
The amphitheatre at Red Rocks near Morrison was carved out and built largely by Civilian Conservation Corps crews in the 1930s, which is why it is a designated National Historic Landmark, not just a concert venue.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Echo Lake is Denver's subalpine wetland park
Echo Lake Park sits at 10,600 feet below Mount Blue Sky, a 24-acre lake with a 10,000-year-old fen and rare subalpine plants.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Corwina Park protects a wooded piece of Bear Creek Canyon
Corwina Park is a Denver Mountain Park in Bear Creek Canyon, with riparian habitat, ponderosa and Douglas fir forest, and a 1918 stone shelter.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Dedisse Park puts Evergreen Lake inside Denver's mountain-park story
Evergreen Lake sits inside Denver's Dedisse Mountain Park, with a golf course, a log-and-stone shelter, and trails toward Alderfer-Three Sisters.
Read note ->Water and land - Denver County
Denver owns a chain of mountain parks far outside the city
The City and County of Denver owns dozens of mountain parks in the foothills and high country, miles outside its own borders, including Red Rocks, Genesee, and Echo Lake.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Bergen Park is a small mountain park with an old stone shelter
Bergen Park is a 25-acre Denver mountain park of grassland and ponderosa pine, centered on a sturdy stone picnic shelter built in 1917.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
O'Fallon Park helps stitch together the Bear Creek corridor
O'Fallon Park's 860 acres link Corwina and Pence parks into one protected Bear Creek corridor of trails, habitat, and foothills shade.
Read note ->Local rules - Jefferson County
Why Denver owns parks inside Jefferson County
Several well-known foothills parks near Golden and Morrison are part of the Denver Mountain Parks system, owned by the City and County of Denver even though they sit inside Jefferson County.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Fillius Park is an old foothills stop on the scenic drive
Fillius Park, a 1914 Denver Mountain Park on Highway 74, was built around the simple act of pausing to look west.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Douglas County
Daniels Park: Denver's bison preserve on a Douglas County rim
A high-plains rim near Sedalia where a live bison herd grazes below one of Colorado's widest views, all on the only Denver Mountain Park in Douglas County.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Jefferson County
Watch Yellowstone-descended bison from the I-70 overlook at Genesee
Genesee Park keeps a small bison herd descended from Yellowstone stock, viewable free from overlooks just off I-70 west of Denver.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Summit Lake is a Denver park in the alpine, high on Mount Blue Sky
Summit Lake Park, a Denver Mountain Park near the top of Mount Blue Sky, sits in true alpine tundra where the weather and altitude need respect.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Daniels Park is Denver's wide-open park out on the plains
Daniels Park is a Denver Mountain Park down in Douglas County, set on open high plains with long views of the mountains and a second city bison herd.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Denver keeps a bison herd you can see from I-70 at Genesee
The City and County of Denver maintains a small bison herd at Genesee Park, visible from Interstate 70 in the foothills west of the city.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Lookout Mountain holds Buffalo Bill's grave and a wide view
Lookout Mountain, a Denver Mountain Park above Golden, is the site of Buffalo Bill Cody's grave and museum and a sweeping view back over the plains.
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