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The first homes in Highlands Ranch were built in 1981, near South Broadway. Simultaneously, the state built a new freeway through the area, C-470 , which opened in 1985. Many of the first residents of Highlands Ranch complained about the initial lack of commercial development.
The Highlands Ranch Metro District became the current owner of the Highlands Ranch Mansion in April 2010. The Metro District developed a projected timeline for the next couple years. The Metro District proceeded with the design of the building renovation and managed the site planning process and subsequent Douglas County approvals. Renovations ...
Highlands Ranch opened in 1987 as the third high school in the district, after Douglas County High School in Castle Rock and Ponderosa High School in Parker.It was the first high school in Highlands Ranch.
After his first wife Eliza had died and his second wife was involved in a murder scandal, he sold the Colorado ranch to Eliza's father, Colonel William E. Hughes in 1913. [12] [10] The ranch ultimately became redeveloped by the Hughes family interests and was built over as the Denver suburb town of Highlands Ranch, Colorado. [13]
Highlands Ranch borders the park to the north. U.S. Route 85 runs to the south and west. [5] The park is adjacent to the Highlands Ranch Backcountry Wilderness and privately-held preserved Cherokee Ranch, creating a combined 12,000-acre open space that runs from Sedalia to Highlands Ranch. [20] [19] The area includes a 55 million-year-old ...
The east, north, and northwest portions of the beltway could be built only as tollways. A tollway extension of SH 470 was built to the junction with State Highway 83 (Parker Road) and termed Eastern/Extension 470 or E-470. Subsequently, E-470 was extended to the interchange with I-70 in the east, and later to I-25 in the north. This newly added ...
The Aspen Ridge Ranch, in the same area, is a complex of modest log residential and agricultural buildings, built in 1910 and expanded in 1946. [35] The Wolff Ranch, located farther north near Moran, is small dude ranch complex established in the 1940s by Stippy Wolff and Frank Allen. [36]
The men's swim and dive team, combined with Thunder Ridge, Rock Canyon, and Highlands Ranch High Schools, won the state championship in 2010. [6] The men's baseball team won the 5A state championship in 2021. The women's flag football team would win CHSAA's inaugural championship for the sport in 2024, beating Arvada West High School. [7]