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Satellite view from April 2004 (top of image faces north). New Half Pipe coaster under construction. (Lower left corner). As space was getting scarce at the original location of Elitch Gardens at 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, the Gurtler family and their financial partners purchased a 67.7-acre (274,000 m 2) plot of land in the Platte River valley near downtown Denver for the price of $6.1 ...
Lakeside Amusement Park is a family-owned [1] amusement park in Lakeside, Colorado, adjacent to Denver. Opened in 1908, it is the oldest amusement park in Colorado still operating in its original location, [Note 1] and is the lone remaining American amusement park to have had the name White City. The park, comprising nearly half of the Town of ...
Elitch's Zoological Gardens opened May 1, 1890, on 16 acres (6.5 ha) of former farmland bought by John Elitch and Mary Elitch. It was the first zoo west of Chicago, and it offered the Denver community a unique cultural experience. Mary Elitch Long managed the park for 26 years following John's death in 1891.
Water World. Water World (also known as, Hyland Hills Water World or Water World Colorado) is a water park that is part of the Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District and located in Federal Heights, Colorado, roughly 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Denver, Colorado. The park first opened in August 1979 with the first two waterslides in the ...
5,308 ft (1,618 m) Settlements. Denver. Sloan Lake, also known as Sloan's Lake and Sloans Lake, [1] is a body of water, park, and neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, US. The neighborhood is located on the northwest side of Denver. The lake is the central feature of Sloan's Lake Park, which is managed by the Parks and Recreation division of the ...
Manhattan Beach (Denver) The steamboat Frolic entertained visitors at Manhattan Beach after the park was rebuilt (in 1908) as Luna Park. Manhattan Beach was a former amusement park in Denver, Colorado, active from 1891 to 1914, and was the first amusement park created west of the Mississippi River. [1] With funding support from Robert and ...
From 1937 to 1994 Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of Denver, was primarily a technical training center.It graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography, aiding the country's war efforts in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
The construction of the stadium marked the completion of a six-year sporting venue upgrade program in Denver, including the construction of Coors Field and of Pepsi Center. As with the other venues, the stadium was constructed to be easily accessible. It sits along Interstate 25 near the Colfax Avenue and 17th Avenue exits. It is also bordered ...