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After a warm January, Denver's urban terrain park, Ruby Hill Rail Yard, is now open for its fourteenth season. The free facility at South Platte River Drive and West Florida Avenue is co-sponsored by the Denver Department of Parks & Recreation and Winter Park, and has ten rails and boxes...and right now, plenty of snow. Admission is free; the Rail Yard is open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, with lights from dusk to 9 p.m.
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"We want the Trump administration to regret they ever decided to hold a hearing in Denver."
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Stephen Piche split his time between Breck and Austin.
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The first big snowstorm of 2020 hit Denver on February 3, then a storm that started February 6 really piled it on. Just after 4 a.m. on February 7, DPS announced it was closing for the day, and much of the city followed suit. The result? Snow day!
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“This weekend just isn’t the time to go out into the backcountry."
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This is the Year of the Rat, in more ways than one. Even before the Chinese New Year began, rats were the talk of this town, after Denver officials said they’d be dispersing a homeless encampment near the State Capitol because rats in the park had created a public-health crisis. But while rats have grabbed recent headlines, they’re not the only urban animals that have been in the news lately.
Last year, stories about geese really took off after the Denver Department of Parks and Recreation put out a hit on the birds. In other years, Denver residents have fretted over rabid skunks, or pesky pigeons.
Here’s an overview of our urban zoo.
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