Category: City Park

  The Denver Zoo has renamed itself the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance according to CEO and President, Bert Vescolani. The move underlines the institution’s efforts not just in Denver but around the world to conserve wildlife. In the Zoo’s Annual Report for 2024, Vescolani states: “Together, we have supported over 600 conservation projects in 62 countries, and we are just getting started. On our 80-acre campus, we provide access to wildlife and nature, igniting the spark of conservation empathy within our community. We take pride in the fact that 25% of our guests enter our gates at a free or

Jolon Clark, Executive Director of Denver Parks and Recreation, will welcome the public to City Park Day this year along with his newly adopted chum, Park Hill Dave. Dave is eager to make one of his first public appearances since finding a new home with Clark and his family after a year-long stint fending for himself at the Park Hill Golf Course (soon to be a park!). City Park Day’s Victorian theme seems right up Dave’s alley and under his supervision, Clark will scoop ice cream along with other Celebrity Scoopers like Terita Walker, East High School Principal, and this

Join us for this special viewing! Tuesday February 4 at 5:30 pm Carla Madison Recreation Center 2401 E. Colfax Avenue Free Parking behind the Center In 1942, the United States Government established the concentration camp Camp Amache in the high desert of southeastern Colorado near the town of Granada. Japanese American citizens were confined there because of the paranoia and fear generated by Japan’s aggression during  World War II. These citizens were incarcerated at the camp until 1945. Today, the action is seen as one of the great tragedies of misjudgment in U.S. history. Site of Camp Amache concentration camp