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Parks and Historic Sites

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Civic Center Park gets new sod today -- and fewer fences this weekend

    Civic Center Park will soon be back in shape. The city closed the park in late March, but employees are re-sodding the Broadway Terrace this afternoon. The work is expected to continue through the end of the week, and the fences surrounding the perimeter will last only through the 2012 Capitol Hill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, April 27-29, 2012

    Whether you're an indoor- or outdoor-lover, a literature-aficionado or a film geek, this weekend is packed with something for everyone -- from a screening of His Royal Badness's 1984 classic Purple Rain to free admission at National Parks. And everything in our roundup is under $10! For a full calen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Lower North Fork Fire started by prescribed burn, Forest Service apologizes

    The U.S. Forest Service is now admitting that the Lower North Fork Fire near Conifer, which appears to have led to at least two casualties (one woman is still missing), was started by a prescribed burn that got out of control. Meanwhile, Governor John Hickenlooper has suspended such burns until aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Ken Salazar: How green is his San Luis Valley?

    On Wednesday, Alamosa-born Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will return to his roots -- again -- as part of a long-simmering effort to promote tourism and conservation in Colorado's much-praised, much-neglected San Luis Valley. Accompanied by Governor John Hickenlooper and Senators Michael Benn ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Naked in Colorado: New book shows models as works of art in the Centennial State

    Slide Show: Colorado Uncovered (NSFW)

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Occupy Denver: Parks and Rec launches expensive park clean-up, protesters help

    Timothy Tipton​Courtesy of Tim Tipton​For two days, the additional presence of police officers and Parks and Recreation maintenance workers has occasionally dwarfed the numbers of actual occupiers at Civic Center Park. Since Saturday's riot, officers have increased their numbers at the o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Occupy Denver's legal team explores precedents regarding tents and symbolic speech

    ​With 23 arrests related to Occupy Denver this weekend, the group's legal team is constantly adapting. This includes a new decision to request that arrestees go through the public defender's office instead of receiving volunteer counsel, as well as frequent reflections on precedents. At this w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2011

    Children of the Corn

    ​With 23 arrests related to Occupy Denver this weekend, the group's legal team is constantly adapting. This includes a new decision to request that arrestees go through the public defender's office instead of receiving volunteer counsel, as well as frequent reflections on precedents. At this w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Old Cow Town Ranch going to auction -- don't tell William Koch

    ​Last year, billionaire William Koch bought Buckskin Joe for $3.1 million, and moved the buildings to his private ranch outside Gunnison. But now you've got another chance to buy an old-timey Colorado town... if Koch, who also dropped $2 million on a Billy the Kid tintype, isn't there with his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Inside Denver Urban Gardens: How you can get involved

    ​Denver Urban Gardens has over 100 gardens in and around Denver, so chances are, if you've live anywhere near or in Denver, you've seen one. Urban gardening provides community residents the oppurtunity to grow their own food, participate in urban renewal and to help local nonprofits out with h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Red Fields to Green Fields: Wall St. banker has grand plan to turn abandoned malls into parks

    ​ A Wall Street investment fund manager has an ambitious plan to double Denver's parkland -- along with the parkland in other cities such as Atlanta and Cleveland. Called Red Fields to Green Fields, the project would use loans from the nation's banking system to buy distressed properties such ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    Diggin’ On This

    ​ A Wall Street investment fund manager has an ambitious plan to double Denver's parkland -- along with the parkland in other cities such as Atlanta and Cleveland. Called Red Fields to Green Fields, the project would use loans from the nation's banking system to buy distressed properties such ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    City Park celery seeds grow the plant that everyone is stalking about: Kenny Be's Hip Tip

    ​ Much like Denver's City Park, the celery plant has a long history of being all things to all people. While the celery plant has been used to embalm King Tut, decorate Greek athletes, flavor Italian meatballs and as a conduit for spray cheese, equally versatile City Park has been home to pris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Fresh produce in the mountains? That's the goal of this Summit County project

    Summit Prevention AllianceNancy's Community Garden in Frisco.​When Amber Brummer was last in California, where she grew up, she bought a bunch of basil for 25 cents. That same amount would cost her about five dollars in Summit County, where she now lives. Brummer is part of the Leadership Clas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Tonight: Namibian conservationist John Kasaona at the Denver Botanic Gardens

    ​John Kasaona has helped pioneer a dramatic revival of wild lands in his native Nambia through a program called Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), where members of rural communities, including former poachers, have been handed the mantle of protecting the wildlife o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Why his "wild lands" policy has the GOP going wild

    ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar clearly wanted to make a splash when he unveiled his new "wild lands" policy last week--two days before Christmas (slow news week), at a press conference outside the REI flagship store, just a few steps from his old Denver office when he was a U.S. Senato ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Christmas is over, but the city's lights glow on

    ​Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season's run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa's horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    Light Bright

    ​Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season's run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa's horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    Get Your Ukes

    ​Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season's run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa's horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 3, 2010

    Summer Guide 2010

    ​Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season's run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa's horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Living History

    ​Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season's run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa's horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Tom Tancredo on scrapping of virtual fence on Mexico border: Obama "gleeful" program flopped, because more illegal aliens mean more Democrats

    Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo thinks good fences make good neighbors.​A report is set to be released today on a virtual fence intended to be placed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirms that the $1.1 billion program has been dumped, due in lar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Michelle Malkin on internment camps and the positive side of racial profiling

    ​You won't find Michelle Malkin, the conservative commentator who now calls Colorado home and was just named one of the right's top 25 journalists, out at the Denver Federal Center today. That's because the National Park Service will be holding a meeting at 10 a.m. on $3 million in grants ava ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Another marijuana-grow operation is uprooted in Pike National Forest

    Assorted agencies took down a marijuana-grow operation on Sugarloaf Mountain in July.​As smoke continues to gather over medical-marijuana operations in Colorado, local law-enforcement agencies continue to find weed-growing operations in remote locations -- and Pike National Forest appears to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Pike National Forest: Can't see the trees for the weed

    A July weed haul in Pike National Forest.​A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it's hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

    A new book puts Colorado's political sex scandals on the spot

    A July weed haul in Pike National Forest.​A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it's hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    Nest Fest

    History’s no mystery at the Mesa Verde birding festival.

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Be An Angel

    Helping East High’s mentoring program is a walk in the park.

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    Trails Blazing

    Helping East High’s mentoring program is a walk in the park.

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Today's Night & Day featured event: yurt's so good

    For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it's winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn't hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are designed to conserve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    20,000 to Fill City Park for DNC Protest Concert

    For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it's winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn't hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are designed to conserve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    USA Today Reporter Patrick O'Driscoll Lands on His Feet

    For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it's winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn't hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are designed to conserve ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Trail Mix

    For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it's winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn't hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are designed to conserve ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 23, 2007

    Balloon Bonanza

    For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it's winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn't hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are designed to conserve ... More >>

  • Summer Guide

    June 7, 2007

    Take a Peak

    The Highway of Legends is a visual sensation.

  • Culture

    April 20, 2006

    Arts and Sciences

    Pictorial photos at Gallery Roach are not so different from the DPL's archaeological shots.

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of June 2, 2005

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of October 7, 2004

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 27, 2003

    Best Rocky Mountain Nature Books

    Rocky Mountain Nature Association

  • Culture

    August 29, 2002

    Showdown at Skyline

    The future of a great public space hangs in the balance.

  • Summer Guide

    June 13, 2002

    Jazz Rules

    City Park stays on a roll with a red-hot lineup.

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best City Park

    Washington Park

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Dog Paradise

    Dog training area
    Cherry Creek State Park

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Plant Help

    Plant Select

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Yurts

    Colorado State Parks

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best community project

    Box Canyon Restoration, City Park

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Weed Kills?

    How harmful is Russian knapweed? Park volunteers are told to keep hands off.

  • News

    September 13, 1995

    TRANSCENDENTAL DESECRATION

    IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

  • News

    May 31, 1995

    GIVE ME A BREAK

    IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

  • News

    January 5, 1994

    Up And Atom!

    Our Rocky Flats contest did a booming business.

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