City Park Alliance hosted our annual Ice Cream Social on June 3, 2022, treating patrons of City Park to both dessert and a wonderful performance by the Denver Municipal Band. It was a fantastic summer evening!
Be sure to save the date for next year’s event on Friday, June 2, 2023!
Be sure to check out the City Park Farmers Market on Saturdays!
Lots of breakfast, brunch and lunch options, vendors from cheese to kombucha to the fixin’s for cocktails – plenty to do see and experience. Join the fun!
When: Saturday’s until October 30th, 8am to 1pm, Rain, snow or shine
Where: East High School Esplanade (1600 City Park Esplanade)
More info here.
Many thanks to City Park Jazz, who concluded their 36th season of entertainment in the park on August 7th!
Check out their website here for updates on their summer 2023 lineup.
Road construction to address inadequate storm drainage continues along 17th Avenue south of City Park.
More about the project:
“The storm water infrastructure installed in the 1930s became undersized for major storms as Denver continued to grow,” according to Nancy Kuhn, the communications director for Denver Public Works. “This storm water improvement project is needed to address recurrent flooding issues in an area of town most at risk for flooding.”
Tunneling is required for this project in an attempt to keep the highly trafficked Colorado Blvd flowing.
Today at the City Park Golf Course, City Park Alliance handed off $1,000 of the funds raised from their 1st Annual Golf Tournament to First Tee of Denver who work to enrich the lives of children in the community through the game of golf.
City Park Alliance is so excited to support the mission of First Tee with some of the funds raised through our First Annual Golf Tournament in June. The work that First Tee does really aligns with our mission – to enhance the lives of the people in our neighborhoods. Young people are such a huge part of what makes the City Park campus so rich – thank you for investing in our community, First Tee!
City Park Alliance wishes a happy 125th birthday to the Denver Zoo. Thank you for the many ways you engage with the Community. Here’s to 125 more–Happy Birthday, Denver Zoo.
City Park Alliance (CPA) is participating in a collaborative public art installation in the Lily Pond. Local artists Sarah and Josh Palmeri will activate the space through a colorful, site-specific installation of roughly 7,000 painted gardening stakes in the seedbeds of the drained pond. The six uniquely shaped seedbeds will transform into abstract forms of lenticular colors, bringing attention to this underutilized area of the City Park.
Sponsored by City Park Friends and Neighbors, supporters in addition to CPA include Denver Arts and Venues, Denver Parks and Recreation, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the Denver ZOO.
To learn more and to learn how you can be involved, visit the Color Field website.
As development eats away at Denver’s green space, the “city within a park” is becoming a concrete metropolis.
More than a century ago, Denver’s leaders — inspired by the City Beautiful movement — built toward the ideal of a “city within a park.” But the last 20 years have seen immense change, as Denver’s population has exploded and developers cover more and more of the city’s remaining nature. Green space per capita is decreasing in the Mile High City as leaders sign off and developers transform urban environment.