Denver, Colorado City and County of Denver Colorado State Capitol Denver Art Museum Downtown Denver skyline, Denver Art Museum, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Millennium Bridge, Mile High Stadium, Union Station, Colorado State Capitol Flag of Denver, Colorado Flag Official seal of Denver, Colorado Location of Denver inside Colorado Location of Denver inside Colorado Founded November 17, 1858, as Denver City, K.T. Incorporated November 7, 1861, as Denver City, C.T. Consolidated November 15, 1902, as the City and County of Denver Body Denver City Council Denver (/ d nv r/), officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most crowded municipality of the U.S.
Denver is in the South Platte River Valley on the edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
The Denver downtown precinct is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official altitude is exactly one mile (5280 feet or 1609.3 meters) above sea level, making it the highest primary city in the United States. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.
Denver is ranked as a Beta- world town/city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
With a 2015 estimated populace of 682,545, Denver rates as the 19th-most crowded U.S.
City, and with a 2.8% increase in 2015, the town/city is also the fastest-growing primary city in the United States. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Travel Destination had an estimated 2015 populace of 2,814,330 and ranked as the 19th most crowded U.S.
Metropolitan area. Denver is the most crowded city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching athwart two states with an estimated 2015 populace of 4,757,713. Denver is the most crowded city inside a 500-mile (800 km) radius and the second-most crowded city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona.
Main articles: History of Denver and Timeline of Denver Denver visited his namesake town/city in 1875 and in 1882.
This was the first historical settlement in what was later to turn into the town/city of Denver.
Larimer titled the townsite Denver City to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W.
Denver. Larimer hoped the town's name would help make it the governmental center of county of Arapaho County but, unbeknownst to him, Governor Denver had already resigned from office.
The site of these first suburbs is now the site of Confluence Park near downtown Denver.
Denver City was a frontier town, with an economy based on servicing small-town miners with gambling, saloons, livestock and goods trading.
In the early years, territory parcels were often interchanged for grubstakes or gambled away by miners in Auraria. In May 1859, Denver City inhabitants donated 53 lots to the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express in order to secure the region's first overland wagon route.
In 1863, Western Union furthered Denver's dominance of the region by choosing the town/city for its county-wide terminus.
The Colorado Territory was created on February 28, 1861, Arapahoe County was formed on November 1, 1861, and Denver City was incorporated on November 7, 1861. Denver City served as the Arapahoe County Seat from 1861 until consolidation in 1902. In 1867, Denver City became the territorial capital.
With its newfound importance, Denver City shortened its name to Denver. On August 1, 1876, Colorado was admitted to the Union.
"Pioneer Mothers of Colorado" statue at The Denver Post building Although by the close of the 1860s, Denver inhabitants could look with pride at their success establishing a vibrant supply and service center, the decision to route the nation's first transcontinental barns through Cheyenne, clean water Denver, threatened the prosperity of the young town.
Finally linked to the rest of the country by rail, Denver prospered as a service and supply center.
Denver people were proud when the rich chose Denver and were thrilled Horace Tabor, the Leadville quarrying millionaire, assembled an impressive company block at 16th and Larimer as well as the elegant Tabor Grand Opera House.
Luxurious hotels, including the much-loved Brown Palace Hotel, soon followed, as well as splendid homes for millionaires like the Croke, Patterson, Campbell Mansion at 11th and Pennsylvania and the now-demolished Moffat Mansion at 8th and Grant. Intent on transforming Denver into one of the world's great cities, leaders wooed trade and enticed workers to work in these factories.
Soon, in addition to the elite and a large middle class, Denver had a burgeoning population of German, Italian, and Chinese laborers, soon followed by African-Americans and Spanish-surnamed workers.
In 1887, the precursor to the global charity United Way was formed in Denver by small-town theological leaders who raised funds and coordinated various charities to help Denver's poor. By 1890, Denver had grown to be the second-largest town/city west of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1900, caucasians represented 96.8% of Denver's population. In 1901, the Colorado General Assembly voted to split Arapahoe County into three parts: a new merged City and County of Denver, a new Adams County, and the remainder of the Arapahoe County to be retitled South Arapahoe County.
A ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, subsequent legislation, and a popular vote delayed the creation of the City and County of Denver until November 15, 1902. Early in the 20th century, Denver, like many other cities, was home to a pioneering Brass Era car company.
From 1953 to 1989, the Rocky Flats Plant, a DOE nuclear weapon facility that was about 15 miles from Denver, produced fissile plutonium "pits" for nuclear warheads.
A primary fire at the facility in 1957, as well as leakage from nuclear waste stored at the site between 1958 and 1968, resulted in the contamination of some parts of Denver, to varying degrees, with plutonium-239, a harmful radioactive substance with a half-life of 24,200 years. A study by the Jefferson County community director, Dr.
Includes Denver's earliest church (Trinity United Methodist), first building of the Mile High Center complex, Lincoln Center, old brownstone part of the Brown Palace Hotel, and Cosmopolitan Hotel since demolished.
Denver was chose, in 1970, to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, to coincide with Colorado's centennial celebration but, in November 1972, Colorado voters hit down ballot initiatives allocating enhance funds to pay for the high costs of the games, which were later moved to Innsbruck, Austria. The notoriety of becoming the only town/city ever to diminish to host an Olympiad after being chose has made subsequent bids difficult.
The boss against hosting the games was based largely on surroundingal issues and was led by State Representative Richard Lamm, who was later propel to three terms (1975 87) as Colorado governor. Denver explored a potential bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but no bid will be submitted. In 2010, Denver adopted a elected update of its zoning code. The new zoning was advanced to guide evolution as envisioned in adopted plans such as Blueprint Denver, Transit Oriented Development Strategic Plan, Greenprint Denver, and the Strategic Transportation Plan.
Denver has hosted the Democratic National Convention twice, in 1908 and again in 2008, taking the opportunity to promote the city's status on the national, political, and socioeconomic stage. On August 10-15, 1993, Denver hosted the 6th World Youth Day, which was attended by an estimated 500,000, making it the biggest gathering in Colorado history.
Denver has also been known historically as the Queen City of the Plains and the Queen City of the West, because of its meaningful part in the agricultural trade of the High Plains region in easterly Colorado and along the foothills of the Colorado Front Range.
Several US Navy ships have been titled USS Denver with respect to the city.
Panorama of Denver in early May, as seen from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Astronaut's photograph of Denver, Colorado, taken from the International Space Station.
Downtown Denver in 2007, looking southeast from the Highland neighborhood Denver is in the center of the Front Range Urban Corridor, between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the High Plains to the east.
Denver's topography consists of plains in the town/city center with hilly areas to the north, west and south.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau the town/city has a total region of 155 square miles (401 km2), of which 153 square miles (396 km2) is territory and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) (1.1%) is water. The City and County of Denver is surrounded by only three other counties: Adams County to the north and east, Arapahoe County to the south and east, and Jefferson County to the west.
Although Denver's nickname is the "Mile-High City" because its official altitude is one mile above sea level, defined by the altitude of the spot of a benchmark on the steps of the State Capitol building, the altitude of the entire town/city ranges from 5,130 to 5,690 feet (1,560 to 1,730 m).
As of January 2013, the City and County of Denver has defined 78 official neighborhoods that the town/city and improve groups use for planning and administration. Although the city's delineation of the neighborhood boundaries is somewhat arbitrary, it corresponds roughly to the definitions used by residents.
Some of the neighborhoods even farther from the town/city center, or recently redeveloped parcels anywhere in the city, have either very suburban characteristics or are new urbanist developments that attempt to recreate the feel of older neighborhoods.
Denver does not have larger region designations, unlike the City of Chicago, which has larger areas that home the neighborhoods (IE: Northwest Side).
Well-known non-administrative neighborhoods include the historic and trendy Lo - Do (short for "Lower Downtown"), part of the city's Union Station neighborhood; Uptown, straddling North Capitol Hill and City Park West; Curtis Park, part of the Five Points neighborhood; Alamo Placita, the northern part of the Speer neighborhood; Park Hill, a prosperous example of intentional ethnic integration; and Golden Triangle, in the Civic Center.
West: Jefferson County, Wheat Ridge, Lakeside, Mountain View, Edgewater, Lakewood, Dakota Ridge Denver View of downtown Denver after a snowstorm in March 2016, looking northwest from Cheesman Park.
Due to its inland locale on the High Plains, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Denver, like all metros/cities along the easterly edge of the Rocky Mountains, is subject to sudden shifts in weather. Contrary to the prominent belief that Denver receives 300 days of sunlight a year, the town/city can actually expect to receive an average of 115 clear days, 130 partly cloudy days, and 120 cloudy days each year. Snowfall is common throughout the late fall, winter and early spring, averaging 53.5 inches (136 cm) for 1981 2010. The average window for calculable ( 0.1 in or 0.25 cm) snow is October 17 through April 27; although, calculable snow flurry has declined in Denver as early as September 4 and as late as June 3.
On the other hand, the suburbs east of Denver and the city's east-northeastern extension (Denver International Airport) can see a several tornadoes, often weak landspout tornadoes, each spring and summer especially amid June with the enhancement of the Denver Convergence Vorticity Zone (DCVZ).
The DCVZ, also known as the Denver Cyclone, is a variable vortex of storm-forming air flow usually found north and east of downtown, and which often includes the airport. Heavy weather from the DCVZ can disrupt airport operations. In a study looking at hail affairs in areas with a populace of at least 50,000, Denver was found to be ranked 10th most apt to hail storms in the continental United States. In fact, Denver has received two of the top 10 costliest hailstorms in United States history which occurred on July 11, 1990 and July 20, 2009, in the order given.
Based on 30-year averages obtained from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center for the months of December, January and February, Weather Channel ranked Denver the 18th coldest primary U.S.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of the City and County of Denver was 600,158, making it the 24th most crowded U.S.
Metropolitan area. Denver is the most crowded city inside a radius centered in the town/city and of 550 miles (885 km) magnitude. Denverites is a term used for inhabitants of Denver.
According to the 2010 census, the City and County of Denver contains 600,158 citizens and 285,797 homeholds.
There are 285,797 housing units at an average density of 1,751 per square mile (676/km ). However, the average density throughout most Denver neighborhoods tends to be higher.
According to the 2010 United States Census, the ethnic composition of Denver was as follows: In total, 27.72% (148,335) of Denver's populace aged five and older spoke a language other than English. Construction in Denver's booming Union Station neighborhood The United States Mint in Denver (2010) The Denver MSA has a gross urbane product of $157.6 billion in 2010, making it the 18th biggest metro economy in the United States. Denver's economy is based partially on its geographic position and its connection to some of the country's primary transportation systems.
Because Denver is the biggest city inside 500 miles (800 km), it has turn into a natural locale for storage and distribution of goods and services to the Mountain States, Southwest states, as well as all states.
Another benefit for distribution is that Denver is nearly equidistant from large metros/cities of the Midwest, such as Chicago and St.
Over the years, the town/city has been home to other large corporations in the central United States, making Denver a key trade point for the country.
AIMCO (NYSE: AIV) the biggest owner and operator of apartment communities in the United States, with approximately 870 communities comprising nearly 136,000 units in 44 states is headquartered in Denver, employing approximately 3,500 citizens .
Also Samsonite Corp., the world's biggest luggage manufacturer, began in Denver in 1910 as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, but Samsonite closed its NE Denver factory in 2001, and moved its command posts to Massachusetts after a change of ownership in 2006.
The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, established in Denver in 1911, is now a part of telecommunications enormous Century - Link.
Media - News Group purchased the Denver Post in 1987; the business is based in Denver.
Made its first chocolate candy in Denver in 1923, but moved to Kansas City in 1969.
The initial Frontier Airlines began operations at Denver's old Stapleton International Airport in 1950; Frontier was reincarnated at DIA in 1994.
Geography also allows Denver to have a considerable government presence, with many federal agencies based or having offices in the Denver area.
The Denver region is home to the former nuclear weapons plant Rocky Flats, the Denver Federal Center, Byron G.
Rogers Federal Building and United States Courthouse, the Denver Mint, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Denver's position near the mineral-rich Rocky Mountains encouraged quarrying and energy companies to spring up in the area.
Denver was assembled up considerably amid this time with the assembly of many new downtown high-rise buildings.
When the price of petroleum dropped from $34 a barrel in 1981 to $9 a barrel in 1986, the Denver economy also dropped, leaving almost 15,000 petroleum trade workers in the region unemployed (including former mayor and current governor John Hickenlooper, a former geologist), and the nation's highest office vacancy rate (30%). The trade has recovered and the region has 700 working oil engineers. Advances in hydraulic fracturing have made the DJ Basin of Colorado into an accessible and lucrative petroleum play.
Denver's west-central geographic locale in the Mountain Time Zone (UTC 7) also benefits the telecommunications trade by allowing communication with both North American coasts, South America, Europe, and Asia in the same company day.
Denver's locale on the 105th meridian at over one mile (1.6 km) in altitude also enables it to be the biggest city in the U.S.
Qwest Communications, Dish Network Corporation, Starz-Encore, DIRECTV, and Comcast are a several of the many telecommunications companies with operations in the Denver area.
After a rise in unemployment in the Great Recession, Denver's unemployment rate recovered and had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 2.6% in November 2016. As of December 2016, the unemployment rate for the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield MSA is 2.6%. The Downtown region has seen increased real estate investment with the assembly of a several new high-rise buildings from 2010 forward and primary evolution around Denver Union Station.
Denver has also appreciateed success as a pioneer in the fast-casual restaurant industry, with many prominent nationwide chain restaurants established and based in Denver.
See also: Landmarks of Denver and Music in Denver Denver Pavilions is a prominent arts, entertainment, and shopping center on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.
Apollo Hall opened soon after the city's beginning in 1859 and staged many plays for eager settlers. In the 1880s Horace Tabor assembled Denver's first opera home.
After the start of the 20th century, town/city leaders embarked on a town/city beautification program that created many of the city's parks, parkways, exhibitions, and the Municipal Auditorium, which was home to the 1908 Democratic National Convention and is now known as the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
Denver and the urbane areas around it continued to support culture.
In 1988, voters in the Denver Metropolitan Area allowed the Scientific and Cultural Facilities Tax (commonly known as SCFD), a 0.1% (1 cent per $10) revenue tax that contributes cash to various cultural and scientific facilities and organizations throughout the Metro area. The tax was renewed by voters in 1994 and 2004 and allows the SCFD to operate until 2018. Denver has many nationally recognized exhibitions, including a new wing for the Denver Art Museum by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the second biggest Performing Arts Center in the country after Lincoln Center in New York City and bustling neighborhoods such as Lo - Do, filled with art arcades, restaurants, bars and clubs.
That is part of the reason why Denver was, in 2006, recognized for the third year in a row as the best town/city for singles. Denver's neighborhoods also continue their influx of diverse citizens and businesses while the city's cultural establishments expanded and prosper.
The town/city acquired the estate of abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still in 2004 and assembled a exhibition to exhibit his works near the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science holds an aquamarine specimen valued at over $1 million, as well as specimens of the state mineral, rhodochrosite.
Every September the Denver Mart, at 451 E.
Denver has various art districts around the city, including Denver's Art District on Santa Fe and the River North Art District (Ri - No). While Denver may not be as recognized for historical musical eminence as some other American cities, it has an active pop, jazz, jam, folk, and classical music scene, which has nurtured a several artists and genres to regional, national, and even global attention.
Well-known folk artists such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and John Denver lived in Denver at various points amid this time, and performed at small-town clubs. Also, three members of the widely prominent group Earth, Wind, and Fire are from Denver.
Because of its adjacency to the mountain peaks and generally sunny weather, Denver has attained a reputation as being a very active, outdoor-oriented city.
Denver and encircling cities are home to a large number of small-town and nationwide breweries.
Denver used to be a primary trading center for beef and livestock when ranchers would drive (or later transport) cattle to the Denver Union Stockyards for sale.
Denver has one of the country's biggest populations of Mexican Americans and hosts four large Mexican American celebrations: Cinco de Mayo (with over 500,000 attendees), in May, El Grito de la Independencia, in September, the annual Lowrider show, and the Dia De Los Muertos art shows/events in North Denver's Highland neighborhood, and the Lincoln Park neighborhood in the initial section of West Denver.
It's best known for its green and red chile sauce, Colorado burrito, Southwest (Denver) omelette, breakfast burrito, chiles rellenos, and tamales.
Denver is also well known for other types of food such as Rocky Mountain oysters, rainbow trout, and the Denver sandwich.
The Dragon Boat Festival in July, Moon Festival in September and Chinese New Year are annual affairs in Denver for the Chinese and Asian residents.
The Denver region has 2 Chinese newspapers, the Chinese American Post and the Colorado Chinese News. metros/cities with squads from four primary sports (the Denver metro region is the smallest urbane region to have a team in all four primary sports).
The Denver Broncos of the National Football League have drawn crowds of over 70,000 since their origins in the early 1960s, and continue to draw fans today to their current home Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
Denver has been home to two National Hockey League teams.
The Major League Soccer team Colorado Rapids play in Dick's Sporting Goods Park, an 18,000-seat soccer-specific stadium opened for the 2007 MLS season in the Denver suburb of Commerce City. The Rapids won the MLS Cup in 2010.
In 2006 Denver established a Major League Lacrosse team, the Denver Outlaws.
Denver submitted the winning bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympics but later withdrew, giving it the dubious distinct ion of being the only town/city to back out after having won its bid to host the Olympics. Denver and Colorado Springs hosted the 1962 World Ice Hockey Championships.
As of 2006, Denver had over 200 parks, from small mini-parks all over the town/city to the enormous 314 acres (1.27 km2) City Park. Denver also has 29 recreation centers providing places and programming for resident's recreation and relaxation. Many of Denver's parks were acquired from state lands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This coincided with the City Beautiful movement, and Denver mayor Robert Speer (1904 12 and 1916 18) set out to grew and beautify the city's parks.
Reinhard Schuetze was the city's first landscape architect, and he brought his German-educated landscaping genius to Washington Park, Cheesman Park, and City Park among others.
In addition to the parks inside Denver, the town/city acquired territory for mountain parks starting in the 1911s. Over the years, Denver has acquired, assembled and maintained approximately 14,000 acres (57 km2) of mountain parks, including Red Rocks Park, which is known for its scenery and musical history revolving around the unique Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Denver also owns the mountain on which the Winter Park Resort ski region operates in Grand County, 67 miles (110 km) west of Denver. City parks are meaningful places for Denverites and visitors, inciting controversy with every change.
Denver continues to expanded its park fitness with the evolution of many new parks along the Platte River through the city, and with Central Park and Bluff Lake Nature Center in the Stapleton neighborhood redevelopment.
Denver is also home to a large network of enhance community plant nurseries, most of which are managed by Denver Urban Gardens, a non-profit organization.
Genesee Park is the biggest of the Denver Mountain Parks.
In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land, a nationwide land conservation organization, reported Denver had the 17th best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
Denver City and County Building (circa 1941), looking west.
Denver City Hall lit up with Christmas lights, 1955.
Denver is a merged city-county with a mayor propel on a nonpartisan ballot, a 13-member town/city council and an auditor.
The Denver City Council is propel from 11 districts with two at-large council-members and is responsible for passing and changing all laws, resolutions, and ordinances, usually after a enhance hearing, and can also call for misconduct investigations of Denver's departmental officials.
Denver has a strong mayor/weak town/city council government.
The mayor can approve or veto any ordinances or resolutions allowed by the council, makes sure all contracts with the town/city are kept and performed, signs all bonds and contracts, is responsible for the town/city budget, and can appoint citizens to various town/city departments, organizations, and commissions.
The Denver Department of Safety oversees three chapters: the Denver Police Department, Denver Fire Department, and Denver Sheriff Department.
The Denver County Court is an integrated Colorado County Court and Municipal Court and is managed by Denver freshwater the state.
While Denver elections are non-partisan, Democrats have long dominated the city's politics; most citywide officials are known to be Democrats.
At the federal level, Denver is the heart of Colorado's 1st congressional district, which includes all of Denver and parts of Arapahoe County.
Stapleton was the mayor of Denver, Colorado, for two periods, the first from 1923 to 1931 and the second from 1935 to 1947.
At a rate of 19 homeless per 10,000 inhabitants in 2011 as compared to 50 or more per 10,000 inhabitants for the four metro areas with the highest rate of homelessness, Denver's homeless populace and rate of homeless are both considerably lower than many other primary cities.
However, inhabitants of the town/city streets suffer Denver winters - which, although mild and dry much of the time, can have brief periods of extremely cold temperatures and snow.
In 2005, Denver became the first primary city in the U.S.
To vote to make the private possession of less than an ounce of marijuana legal for grownups 21 and older. The town/city voted 53.5 percent in favor of the marijuana legalization measure, which, as then-mayor John Hickenlooper pointed out, was without effect, because the town/city cannot usurp state law, which at that time treated marijuana possession in much the same way as a speeding ticket, with fines of up to $100 and no jail time. Denver passed an initiative in the fourth quarter of 2007 requiring the mayor to appoint an 11-member review panel to monitor the city's compliance with the 2005 ordinance. In 2012, Colorado Amendment 64 was signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper and at the beginning of 2014 Colorado became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. Former Denver mayor John Hickenlooper was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino.
Denver hosted the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was the centennial of the city's first hosting of the landmark 1908 convention.
On October 31, 2011 it was announced The University of Denver in Denver would host the first of three 2012 presidential debates to be held on October 3, 2012.
The City and County of Denver levies an Occupational Privilege Tax (OPT or head tax) on employers and employees.
Denver Public Schools (DPS) is the enhance school fitness in Denver.
The precinct boundaries are coextensive with the town/city limits. The Cherry Creek School District serves some areas with Denver postal addresses that are outside the town/city limits. Three primary enhance schools constitute the Auraria Campus, University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver.
The private University of Denver was the first institution of higher learning in the town/city and was established in 1864.
Other prominent Denver college studies establishments include Johnson & Wales University, Catholic (Jesuit) Regis University and the town/city has Roman Catholic and Jewish establishments, as well as a community sciences school.
The Denver Metropolitan Area is served by a range of media outlets in print, radio, television, and the Internet.
After a continued rivalry between Denver's two chief newspapers, the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, the papers consolidated operations in 2001 under a Joint Operating Agreement which formed the Denver Newspaper Agency until February 2009 when E.
There are also a several alternative or localized newspapers presented in Denver, including the Westword and Out Front Colorado.
Denver is home to multiple county-wide magazines such as 5280, which takes its name from the city's mile-high (5,280 feet or 1,609 meters) elevation.
Dawn over downtown Denver and the Front Range to the south Larimer Street, titled after William Larimer, Jr., the founder of Denver, which is in the heart of Lo - Do, is the earliest street in Denver.
Speer Boulevard runs north and south through downtown Denver.
Some Denver streets have bicycle lanes, leaving a patchwork of disjointed routes throughout the city.
There are over 850 miles of paved, off-road, bike paths in Denver parks and along bodies of water, like Cherry Creek and the South Platte.
This allows for a momentous portion of Denver's populace to be bicycle commuters and has led to Denver being known as a bicycle-friendly city. Some small-town inhabitants are very opposed to bike lanes, which have caused some plans to be watered down or nixed.
This is due in large part to Front Range metros/cities like Boulder, Fort Collins and Denver placing an emphasis on legislation, programs and transit framework developments that promote cycling as a mode of transportation. Walk score has rated Denver as the third most bicycle-friendly large town/city in the United States. According to data from the 2011 American Community Survey, Denver rates 6th among US metros/cities with populations over 400,000 in terms of the percentage of workers who commute by bicycle at 2.2% of commuters. B-Cycle Denver's citywide bicycle sharing program was the biggest in the United States at the time of its launch, boasting 400 bicycles. Through the acquisition of new grants, the program has period each year, adding dozens of new stations, hundreds of bikes, and by beginning service amid the winter months. cities, though massive gaps in the metros/cities sidewalks remain an oft-discussed issue. Many walkability promotes believe the city's need for pedestrian transit framework is only burgeoning as Denver and the Colorado Department of Transportation place the needs of cars over the needs of citizens by widening roads or the purposeful plowing of snow onto sidewalks amid winter storms.
I-25 (CO).svg Interstate 25 runs north south from New Mexico through Denver to Wyoming I-270 (CO).svg Interstate 270 runs concurrently with US 36 from an interchange with Interstate 70 in northeast Denver to an interchange with Interstate 25 north of Denver.
US 6.svg US 6 follows the alignment of 6th Avenue west of I-25, and joins downtown Denver to the west-central suburbs of Golden and Lakewood.
US 36.svg US 36 joins Denver to Boulder and Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park.
Colorado 470.svg State Highway 470 (C-470, SH 470) is the southwestern portion of the Denver metro area's beltway.
SH 470 was intended to be I-470 and assembled with federal highway funds, but the funding was redirected to complete conversion of downtown Denver's 16th Street to a pedestrian mall.
Metro Denver highway conditions can be accessed on the Colorado Department of Transportation website Traffic Conditions. Mass transit throughout the Denver urbane region is managed and coordinated by the Regional Transportation District (RTD).
RTD operates more than 1,000 buses serving over 10,000 bus stops in 38 municipal jurisdictions in eight counties around the Denver and Boulder urbane areas.
CDOT runs a bus fitness titled Bustang that offers weekday service between Union Station in Denver, Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins. Greyhound Lines, the intercity bus operator, has a primary hub in Denver, with routes to New York City, Portland, Reno, Las Vegas, and their headquarters, Dallas.
Amtrak Thruway service directed by private bus companies links the Denver station with Rocky Mountain points.
Additionally, the Ski Train directed on the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, which took passengers between Denver and the Winter Park Ski Resort, but it is no longer in service.
Trains stop in Denver at historic Union Station, where travelers can access RTD's 16th Street Free Mall - Ride or use light rail to tour the city.
Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN), generally known as DIA, serves as the major airport for a large region encircling Denver.
DIA is the tenth busiest airport in the world and rates fourth in the United States, with 51,245,334 passengers passing through it in 2008. It covers more than 53 square miles (137.3 km2), making it the biggest airport by territory area in the United States and larger than the island of Manhattan. Denver serves as a primary hub for United Airlines, is the command posts for Frontier Airlines, and is the fastest-growing focus town/city for Southwest Airlines.
As of 2016 Denver International Airport has been rated by Skytrax as the 28th best airport in the world, making it the second best in North America behind Vancouver International Airport.
Three general aviation airports serve the Denver area.
Denver was not destroyed, but terrorists devastated the stadium outside the town/city with a nuclear bomb, killing both Super Bowl squads and about 60,000 spectators in the climax of Tom Clancy's 1991 novel The Sum of All Fears.
Main article: Sister metros/cities of Denver Denver's relationship with Brest, France, began in 1948, making it the second-oldest sister town/city in the United States. Since then, Denver has established relationships with additional sister cities: In addition to these, the Denver Regional Council of Governments (consisting of the town/city and 51 other small-town governments) has established a "sister city" relationship with the Baghdad Governorate, one of Iraq's eighteen provinces. National Register of Historic Places listings in Denver, Colorado Official records for Denver kept at downtown from January 1872 to December 1949, Stapleton Airport from January 1950 to February 1995, and DIA since March 1995.
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Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.
"The 43rd Annual Denver Gem and Mineral Show".
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