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In 2013, the Denver Mountain Parks Foundation and the City of Denver marked the centennial of the park system with a book featuring park history, scenic and historic photographs, and a guide to the system. Denver Mountain Parks: 100 Years of the Magnificent Dream was released August 1, 2013, by John Fielder Publishing.
The properties are distributed across 48 of Denver's 79 official neighborhoods.For the purposes of this list, the city is split into four regions: West Denver, which includes all of the city west of the South Platte River; Downtown Denver, which includes the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Central Business District, Civic Center, Five Points, North Capitol Hill, and Union Station; and Northeast ...
Downtown Denver includes 151 of these properties and districts, including the National Historic Landmark and 2 that extend into other regions; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. Another 7 properties in downtown Denver were once listed but have been removed.
Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 33.5 mi (54 km) west of Denver, Colorado.The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbecue grills on one end of the lake, and the 1926 Echo Lake Lodge (gift shop and restaurant service only) and an Arapaho National Forest campground are found at the other.
In 1890, the Denver Resort Railway and Telegraph Company built a narrow-gauge railroad to the mountain from Denver, but failed to complete or open it despite being listed as an operating railroad by the Interstate Commerce Commission until 1898. [4] [5] Built in 1913, the Lariat Loop road ascends from Golden up the steep east side of Lookout ...
Speer Boulevard, in Denver, Colorado, is a historic parkway. It runs from Irving St. in the West Highland neighborhood to Downing St. in the Country Club neighborhood, was built in 1906, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] It is part of the Denver Park and Parkway System, which includes 16 parkways and 15 parks.
Humboldt Street Historic District, or Humboldt Island, is located west of Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado on Humboldt Street between East Tenth and Twelfth Streets. [2] [3] It was the first residential district to be designated a historic district by the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission in 1972, and is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
View down Glenwood Canyon from Hanging Lake. Glenwood Canyon is a rugged scenic 12.5 mi (20 km) canyon in western Colorado in the United States. Its walls climb as high as 1,300 feet (400 m) above the Colorado River. It is the largest such canyon on the Upper Colorado.