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5 Porch Notes tagged “free,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Denver County

RiNo's Painted Warehouses: Denver's Open-Air Mural Gallery

In Denver's River North Art District, brick warehouses double as canvases for a self-guided mural walk that grows a little every year.

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History and culture - Boulder County

Friday Nights Under the Stars at CU's Sommers-Bausch Observatory

On clear Friday nights when CU classes are in session, anyone can walk up to the Sommers-Bausch Observatory and look through a 20-inch telescope for free.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Montrose County

Montrose put a whitewater park right downtown

The free Montrose Water Sports Park drops six engineered waves into a 1,000-foot stretch of the Uncompahgre River, close to the middle of town.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Chaffee County

Surf a wave in the middle of town

Buena Vista and Salida both built standing waves right in the Arkansas River, free to watch or paddle all summer long.

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History and culture - Jefferson County

The free Golden museum with a moon rock and a room of glowing stone

On the Colorado School of Mines campus, a free earth-science museum holds an Apollo 17 moon rock, a cave of glowing minerals, and tens of thousands of specimens that explain why Golden became a mining town.

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