Ad
related to: denver mapquest
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The initial team experienced rapid growth in the Denver office, and in a short time MapQuest was becoming a well-known brand. On 25 February 1999, MapQuest went public, trading on Nasdaq. [6] In December 1999, America Online (AOL) announced it would acquire MapQuest for $1.1 billion. The deal closed in 2000. [1]
Denver (/ ˈ d ɛ n v ər / ⓘ DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.It is located in the western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. [10]
State Highway 470 (SH 470, known locally as C-470) is a freeway located in the southwestern portion of the Denver Metro Area. It is also the southwestern portion of the Denver Metro area's beltway. SH 470 begins at US 6 in Golden and heads south interchanging Interstate 70 and then US 285 outside Morrison.
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
Denver has traditionally been home to one of the busier airports in the United States because its midcontinent location was ideal for an airline hub.Several airlines, notably United Airlines and Continental Airlines, had hubs at the former Stapleton International Airport, helping make it the sixth-busiest airport in the country by the 1960s.
The oldest part of Denver, Colorado, now the neighborhoods of Auraria Campus, LoDo, much of downtown, and Five Points, is laid out on a grid plan that is oriented diagonal to the four cardinal directions. The rest of the city, including the eastern part of downtown, is laid out primarily on a grid oriented to the cardinal directions.
The United States Office of Management and Budget has delineated the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area consisting of ten Colorado counties: the City and County of Denver, Arapahoe County, Jefferson County, Adams County, Douglas County, the City and County of Broomfield, Elbert County, Park County, Clear Creek County ...
Douglas County is part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood metropolitan statistical area. It is located midway between Colorado's two largest cities, Denver and Colorado Springs , and contains a portion of Aurora, the state's third-largest city.