What’s to know about Bailey Co
Situated along a scenic curve in the South Platte River, rustic Bailey serves up healthy doses of beautiful canyon scenery. Its mountain-wilderness backdrop lends a particular charm to this sleepy mountain town.
The five-acre McGraw Park features several historic structures, including an 1864 log cabin and a one-room schoolhouse from 1894. The park leads to a trail offering another 10 acres for nature exploration. Recent improvements to the park include picnic facilities, trout-fishing enhancements and a whitewater kayak launch.
Bailey sits just outside the Lost Creek Wilderness Area in the Pike National Forest, where week-long backpacking trips and day hikes are popular. The logging roads and pack trails crisscrossing the area’s hilly terrain are a mountain biker’s dream and first-rate fly-fishing opportunities abound.
If your stomach’s begging for a pit stop, the local eateries should satisfy the craving. Whether you stop in Bailey for a quick lunch or a week-long excursion, be on the lookout — a herd of bighorn sheep live in the mountains just outside town.
Rocky Mountain Days… your source for fun things to do in the Colorado Front Range
Please check out the Swan Group’s other Blog called Rocky Mountain Days….. This blogs tells you all about the fun things going on around the front range areas. checking out these events is also a great way of getting a feel for places you may want to call your new home !
check it out www.rockymountaindays.com
Great recommendations for Sandy Swan
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Tim Brannon: Real Estate Pro Sandy Swan is an excellent realtor and one of my absolute favorites to work with. Being in the mortgage business, I come into contact with all different types of realtors. Some are obviously just after the commission. Sandy listens very carefully to her clients, be it buyer or seller, and goes to great lengths to insure their satisfaction. One call is all it takes to know that you are dealing with a consummate professional.
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Sandy Swan and I have been dearest friends for 35 years. So, believe me when I say that she is one of the most stubborn people that I have ever known!! In that, I mean she has dogged determination to do whatever it takes to get the job done and done well. In so doing, Sandy is fearless. As a youngster, she overcame a serious illness that would have knocked down a mule-team of adults because she “just didn’t have time to be sick.” As a 20-something, she procured a teaching position at The University of Honolulu. Honestly, Sandy Swan bends over backwards to assist those in need, whether it be personally or professionally. Trust me, you want her on your team!
History of Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver Co
The Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado is a place where the residents of the Mile High City have come for fun for more than a century. It is a magnificent piece of American history, being one of the oldest amusement parks still operating in the country, as well as the oldest in the state still functioning on its original location.
Opened in 1908, under the name of White City, the amusement park is the place that brings up sweet memories for many of the residents of Denver. Dubbed ‘The Coney Island of the West’ after the world famous attraction from New York, the White City aimed to match the grandeur of other amusement parks across the U.S. Lakeside Amusement Park is the last park in existence from the numerous White Cities which were opened during the amusement park craze of the last decade of the 19th century. Inspired by a section of the World’s Columbian Exposition from 1893, most of these parks featured a Shoot-the-Chutes ride, a Ferris wheel, a rollercoaster, as well as numerous other games and pavilions. Denver’s White City also featured these attractions, and some of them are still working today as a testimony of the enduring charm of these turn-of-the century creations.
Flooded by more than a 100,000 lights that illuminated the place as daylight, the White City was a fully-fledged resort, catering for the needs of Denver most pretentious pleasure-seekers. Highlights among the many attraction of the resort were the huge indoor swimming pool, the ballrooms, theater performances and exclusivist restaurants. Serving as a landmark, not just for the park but for the city of Denver, the Tower of Jewels stood as the tallest building in the state for a number of years. The Tower was lighted by thousands of fixtures and it originally sported a huge spotlight that shined upon the Ferris wheel. The resort’s casino used to function in the tower, where the rich of Denver came to gamble their money away. Today the Tower still stands as a central piece of the park alongside with 14 other original buildings, and houses the park administration offices.
The park went through a period of transformation during the 1930s when investors bought the property and set on a massive work of renovation and rejuvenating. During this time, the park changed name to the Lakeside Amusement Park, which is well suited due to its placing on the side of Lake Rhoda. The lake has been used as an integrated part of the amusement park through the addition of a pier where visitors could rent boats for a ride on the lake. The parks Art Deco themed architecture also dates from this period, when many additions and improvements were made to the original infrastructure. Besides the original buildings, the Lakeside Park is home to a number of architectural treasures, salvaged from the surrounding areas. A good example is the marble and mirror bar found in one of the park’s restaurant that was taken from the old Denver Union Station. Other historic buildings and structures have been adapted to a new use in the park, such as the old Shoot-the-Chutes ride, which is used now as a pool for a new water ride.
Traveling through the tumultuous 20th century into the present, the Lakeside Amusement Park came to represent a symbol of the city of Denver, where buildings from the early days of the century and the crazy 1930s come together with modern structures to create a unique, living piece of American history.
Find out everything you want to know about Parker Co at parkeronline.org
Overview
Parker, located in Douglas County with easy access to the Denver metropolitan area, is known for its unique Western-Victorian downtown area.
Facts
Founding: Parker, Colorado was founded in 1864.
Incorporation: Parker became a municipality in 1981.
Location: Parker is located 20 miles southeast of Denver, Colorado.
Elevation: Parker sits at an elevation of 5,900 feet above sea level.
Size and Population: The Town of Parker is 18.8 square miles with a current population of approximately 45,300 people residing within the incorporated Town boundaries.
School District: Students residing in Parker are within the Douglas County School District RE 1.
Demographics: View Parker Demographics.
Community Profile: View Community Profile.
The History of Indian Hills Co…. read more at www.indianhillscolorado.com
Brief History of Indian Hills
Indian Hills, a place of ponderosa pine forests and flowery meadows with elevations between 6,800 feet and 8,500 feet, was once a summer campground for Ute Indians. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is the home of approximately 1500 residents, some of whom have been privileged to live here for more than 50 years.
The region of Indian Hills was known first as the North Fork of Turkey Creek, and then as Parmalee Gulch after one of the earliest settlers in the valley. John D. Parmalee came to Colorado in 1860 at the age of 47. On February 1, 1866, the territorial legislature granted Parmalee a charter for his Denver and Turkey Creek Wagon Road Company to construct a wagon road leading from Denver by way of Turkey Creek Canyon toward South Park. This wagon road is still visible in several locations in the canyon.
Parmalee also operated a sawmill on Parmalee Gulch in the area above Giant Gulch Road, which was an old Indian trail that was converted into a stagecoach road. Parmalee Gulch Road was completed in 1870. The residence known as Parmalee House was believed to have been built in 1859. It housed the Post Office from 1926 until 1951.
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Maggie Crow was the first mail carrier in the mountains between Morrison and Conifer in the late 1800s. She packed a gun and cracked a whip as well as any man, earning a total of 76 cents her first year. She was awarded the mail contract for the Star Route West out of Morrison to Conifer, up Turkey Creek Canyon. During bitter cold winter days, she sat on her hands to keep them warm,
and kept her seat warm by sitting on a big rock she had heated the night before in her wood-burning range.
During the 1860s and 1870s, various circumstances brought many adventurous spirits to Colorado, Jefferson County, and Parmalee Gulch. The Railway Act of 1850 had encouraged settlement by granting land to companies that agreed to open up the West. The names of John Evans, Jay Gould, and Russell Sage appear on many land abstracts in Parmalee Gulch. Of these three, only John Evans remained in Colorado to pursue a long career of enterprise and service; President Lincoln appointed him second territorial governor in 1862.
The earliest record of settlers in the area includes the name of Martin V. Luther, who came to Colorado in 1861 and settled in the upper part of the valley. The Ute Indians frequently camped on the Luther ranch on their way to and from the mountains. Mrs. Luther knew Colorow and Washington, two Indian chiefs, very well, and they were entertained with courtly hospitality many times by her and her husband. The Indian trail to Morrison was used by early settlers to drive cattle to shipping points there.
Ranching, farming, and lumbering were the sources of livelihood in the late 1800s. The most successful industry was hauling wood to Morrison for shipping to Denver. Potatoes also were grown for the Denver market, and sheep were grazed on the hills.
read more of the history and everything going on in Indian Hills Co www.indianhillscolorado.com
A bit of History of Golden Co
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A Brief History of Golden Colorado Clear Creek is the historic heart of the Golden community. In the late 1850s gold was discovered in Colorado. Prospectors often looked for gold in the streams coming out of the mountains. When they found it, they followed the streams until they found the source of the gold. In 1859, gold was discovered in Clear Creek. The miners followed the Creek into the mountains and eventually found large deposits in Central City and near Idaho Springs. Meanwhile, Golden benefitted from its position as the last “flat place” before entering the Rocky Mountains. The town became a commercial and agricultural center where people could stock up on the food and equipment they needed to venture into the mountains. Soon Golden had industry as well—smelters to process the metal mined in the mountains, flour mills to grind the wheat grown on the plains, brick works to form the local clay into building materials, and coal mines to help power it all. |
 Golden – a 19th Century Commercial Center Courtesy of Golden History Museums, City of Golden Collection |
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During the 1860s, before Colorado became a state, Golden was the Territorial Capitol. The building where the legislature met still stands at 12th and Washington. Local outrage ran high when Denver snagged the honor of becoming the permanent capitol. Our local newspaper, the Golden Transcript, was established in 1866 by George West, one of the town’s founders, and is still in publication today. The Colorado School of Mines was established in 1870, to help train the geologists and mining engineers who supported the Colorado mining industry. Over the years, the school has expanded its programs as new technologies arose, beginning with mining in the 19th century, adding petroleum exploration in the 20th, and becoming a leader in renewable energy in the 21st. |
About Ken Caryl, Co
Ken Caryl is a planned community located just 18 miles southwest of downtown Denver, tucked away in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. This community was first formed in 1970 by The John Manville Corporation and now has a population of over 11,000 residents. The area that occupies Ken Caryl today was purposely chosen as a private oasis from the big city hub-bub. The scenery that surrounds this charming community is among the finest in the country with rolling grasslands, red rock formations and beautiful views of picturesque mountain vistas. The occasional sighting of a deer, elk, mountain lion, even a black bear is not uncommon and only reinforces that this is real “Colorado Living!”
Interested in living in Ken Caryl and want more information? check out these 2 sites www.uptake.com or ken-carlyranch.org
