Category: City Park

Duck Lake is Quacking with Activity! Let’s start with the new mural on the west wall of the Denver Zoo’s storage complex that borders Duck Lake. This area was City Park land set aside for the Denver Zoo’s gasification project, a plan to use animal waste and human trash to generate clean energy to power the zoo. The project was abandoned in 2015 due to concerns about costs and environmental issues but mainly technical failures. The system didn’t work. Instead of reverting the area back to City Park natural uses for the public to enjoy, the Zoo retained the area for storage

Denver’s City Park by Bette D. Peters would make a wonderful gift for your friends and family members who love City Park and would like to know more about its colorful history. UCD Professor, Dr. Tom Noel, known as Dr. Colorado states that Denver’s City Park “is still the single most important reference book for park enthusiasts who study and promote the history and heritage of the park. It is, in fact, the only book ever written about City Park, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of our treasured park system.” The book is full of the stories that have contributed to the unique character of the

Please join us for an exceptional program on Tuesday, November 12 when Dr. Erin Baxter, Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS), will speak about the excavations she directed in City Park this past summer in City Park. A collaboration between DMNS and Denver Parks and Recreation, the excavations took place at five locations in City Park and yielded artifacts like an 1800’s pottery fragment and a pre-historic chipstone flake.  High school students from underserved communities across Denver were recruited through DMNS’ Teen Science Scholars Program to serve as interns for the program. Under Dr.