One of the boats is a garden planter now. A couple more sit in a storage unit near Elitch Gardens. The remaining handful of punts — think gondolas like in Venice — were given away as gifts, their fate today unknown. It’s been 13 years since the last punt plied Denver’s Cherry Creek. But the […]
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Plastic hippos are out. Colorado playgrounds are getting a more natural makeover.
Before 2016, Grant Frontier Park was touted as a place where prospectors first discovered gold in the South Platte River near Denver. No one seemed to care. “I never saw anyone in the park,” Gordon Robertson, director of planning design and construction at Denver Parks and Recreation Department, said of the three-block long park that […]
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Some of the priciest Denver real estate is going to the frogs in major Cherry Creek upgrade
As Inga Gok and her energetic Belgian shepherd explore the newly-terraced mudflats along Cherry Creek, east of South Quebec Street, they’re blissfully unaware of the expensive ground they tread. This one-mile stretch of the popular Cherry Creek Regional Trail, where bike commuters and joggers speed by in a nonstop parade, is nearing the end of […]