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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.
Denver Mountain Parks MPS: NRHP reference No. 90001707 [2] Added to NRHP: November 15, 1990: Bergen Park is a park near Evergreen, Colorado.
Dedisse Park is a Denver Mountain Park located in Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.It was originally the scenic mountain ranch of 1860s pioneer Julius C. Dedisse. This 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of land was awarded to the city of Denver in 1919 through a condemnation suit against the Dedisse family who received $25,000 in compensation for it.
Elk Meadow Park is a park and trail system [1] in Evergreen, Colorado managed by Jefferson County Open Space. This program began acquiring these ranchlands in 1977 to create the extensive protected area, which is made larger by adjacent public lands.
Evergreen is surrounded by thousands of acres of land in the Denver Mountain Parks and Jefferson County Open Space park systems. The Denver Mountain Parks in the area are Bergen Park, Corwina Park, Dedisse Park, Dillon Park, Fillius Park, O'Fallon Park and Pence Park in Indian Hills.
The Denver Mountain Parks system is maintained by the city and county of Denver, Colorado, United States. It contains 31 parks and 16 unnamed parcels of land that cover over 14,000 acres (57 km²). It contains 31 parks and 16 unnamed parcels of land that cover over 14,000 acres (57 km²).
The Lariat Loop National Scenic and Historic Byway is a National Scenic Byway and a Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.The byway is a 40-mile (64 km) loop in the Front Range foothills west of Denver through Golden, Lookout Mountain Park, Genesee Park, Evergreen, Morrison, Red Rocks Park, and Dinosaur Ridge.
Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 64 miles (100 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres (0.65 km 2 ) in size and contains alpine tundra . Land to the east of the lake is in a state of permafrost which helps to prevent drainage of the area. [ 2 ]