Riverside Cemetery

This isn't a Denver park, but Riverside Cemetery is designated as a natural historic district because of it being the first cemetery in Denver. You can check out their website here. It has an interesting history. The guy who we met told me that they used to bring deceased people in horse and wagon and that the bodies that were moved from Cheesman and Congress park were moved here to Riverside. There are grave sites here without markings. Madison has been really interested in seeing a cemetery and I wanted to show her the realities of what going to a cemetery were like. We saw a lot of graves of very young people and an orphanage had a section where they buried children who died in its care.

You're not allowed to take pictures of the stones out of respect for people's privacy, but I did want to take a couple of pictures to show the scenery. The cemetery used to be the only thing out there, now it's crowded out by industry.