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Satellite view from April 2004 (top of image faces north). New Half Pipe coaster under construction. (Lower left corner). As space was getting scarce at the original location of Elitch Gardens at 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, the Gurtler family and their financial partners purchased a 67.7-acre (274,000 m 2) plot of land in the Platte River valley near downtown Denver for the price of $6.1 ...
Mount Vernon was founded in 1859 by Dr. Joseph Casto who followed the gold rush to Colorado in 1858. He did not find gold, but decided to establish a town between the mining camps and the city of Denver. With three other men, he founded the Denver, Auraria, and Colorado Wagon Company in December 1859. [1] The Mount Vernon House in 2013
The River Mile is a planned 62-acre (250,000 m 2) master-planned, mixed-use community in Denver, Colorado.The site is currently home to Elitch Gardens Theme Park, an amusement park and water park dating back to its current location in 1995.
The mountain opened for the 1939–40 season as Winter Park Ski Area [3] and was owned and operated by the city and county of Denver until 2002, when Denver entered into a partnership with Intrawest ULC, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which operated the resort until Intrawest was acquired by Alterra Mountain Company in 2018.
Downtown Aquarium (formerly Colorado's Ocean Journey) is a for profit aquarium and restaurant located in Denver, Colorado, at the intersection of I-25 and 23rd Ave. The 107,000 square feet (9,900 m 2 ) main building sits on a 17-acre (6.9 ha) site adjacent to the South Platte River .
Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is an 80-acre (32 ha) nonprofit zoological garden and conservation organization located in City Park of Denver, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1896, it is operated by the Denver Zoological Foundation and funded in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
The amphitheatre is nestled in Greenwood Plaza near the Denver Technological Center amongst office buildings. It opened in 1988 under the original name of Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre with a performance by Dan Fogelberg on June 11, 1988. In March 2004, it was announced the amphitheatre would open the 2004 season with a new name, Coors ...
November: Denver City Water Company formed. [30] 1871 Horse tram to Cook's Addition in 1891. December 17: Denver Horse Railroad the first rail transit service begins operating, changing its name in the next year to the Denver City Railway Co. [31] 1873 – Palace Theater, a gambling and entertainment establishment, opened by Ed Chase. [32]