Hiking in Denver can fill every day of the year due to the hundreds of miles of trails, more than 300 parks, and 78 neighborhoods that call Denver home. Depending on the month, one hike is better than the next. For 2021, as COVID and vaccinations continue to inject...
Hiking the Sand Creek Greenway If you want to hike the Sand Creek Greenway, you can hike it any way you want. Hike it all at once, in 4 segments, or a little bit at a time. It covers just more than 14 miles and trails from Aurora to Commerce City through Denver. For...
How to Hike the Sand Creek Greenway From the sprawling soccer fields in Aurora to the confluence of the Platte River and the Sand Creek, you’ll pass by two nature centers, an old runway, historic Danish pig farms, metro Denver’s storm water runoff treatment plant, and...
Sand Creek Greenway Segment 4 Leaving the Wetland Park trailhead, you’ll meander along Sand Creek right next to I270, but you’d never know it. You’ll see some interesting flood control infrastructure, pass by the historic Danish pig farm lots, pass...
Sand Creek Greenway Segment 3 At Bluff Lake Nature Center, the Sand Creek Regional Greenway technically follows alongside Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd. But with ongoing construction, you may want to walk through Bluff Lake Nature Center’s property, instead,...
Sand Creek Greenway Segment 2 Segment 2 of the Sand Creek Trail starts at Star K Ranch, Morrison Nature Center. Here, you can often catch herds of white tail and mule deer hanging out in the thickets and the cottonwoods along the Sand Creek. As you work your way west...
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