"Packy" Romans Park

Romans Park is actually in Englewood also! It is a super nice neighborhood park and really great for smaller children. It has a ton of playground equipment that is great for 2-8 year olds. It has a playground for bigger kids too but the coolest equipment seems geared towards a younger age. It's a long thin park, which we didn't quite like the layout of it. We probably wouldn't come here again, not just because it's kind of out of the way. We would definitely be here all the time if we lived nearby though. It has really unique benches too that reminded us of Mario mushrooms.

Cool Mushroom benches

This wasn't at the park, but nearby off a street
corner and we thought it was cool. 

Harvard Gulch West

Harvard Gulch West Park is a long park that runs along the W Harvard Gulch Trail. You could walk along the trail and go through the entire park. We just parked and went to a section of it. We weren't able to find the sign to it though. It has a nice playground with some equipment we don't typically see. It feels more like a neighborhood park and parking is along the street near houses. I wouldn't necessarily go here again. It didn't seem worth it to me to take the time out to go here, even if I was in the area, considering there are larger, nicer parks nearby. But it is a really nice park if you live near it.

Cainen used his sling shot to shoot out air bubbles from
under the ice. 

Baker Park

Baker Park is actually a part of Englewood's Park and Rec. It's difficult to tell sometimes when you pass from Denver to another small suburb. This is a tiny neighborhood park and is decent if you live nearby and in the neighborhood. I wouldn't visit the park again. It did have some cool playground equipment that you don't see very often.

I liked the look of this picture. You can see all the geese in the
background too. 

I was actually trying to take the above picture and couldn't
understand why I wasn't seeing the kids. It took me several
minutes to realize the camera view was turned around and
I was taking a picture of myself. :)

Paco Sanchez Park

Paco Sanchez Park is ENORMOUS! It's connected to several other parks, the Lakewood Gulch, a trail that you can walk along to get everywhere, and also the Light-rail. It's has tons of grass area to do anything you want to do. It has a playground and is also near other parks with playgrounds as well. You can play near the stream. It has a bridge which was cool to walk across. I would definitely recommend stopping here if you're nearby.

C for Cainen and M for Madison

Joseph P. Martinez Park

This park is a little ways from where we are normally but it's a nice park with tons of cool playground equipment, the Lakewood Gulch stream, and a trail that connects to several other parks. It's in a quiet neighborhood, away from busy roads and has it's own parking lot area, so it's relatively easy access. It's a smaller sized park but since it's connected to so many other things, it feels bigger than it is. I would recommend going here and taking time out to walk along the trail to all the other parks it's connected to.

We were pretending we were on a roller coaster.
So scared!!

Humphreys Park

Humphreys Park is right next to Governors' Park. The Grant-Humphreys Mansion is a historical site for Denver and I actually witnessed many weddings there too. Here is some history on the mansion.

Governors' Park

I went to Governors' Park with my friend Lauren and we tried some of the playground even though we're a little too big for it. It's a nice park right in the middle of downtown. I wouldn't go out of my way to go to this park but if you live nearby it's nice enough. There is a grass area to play also. It's not a park I would go out of my way to go to. It's kind of geared more towards younger kids too and it's near a couple busy streets.

Also, there are a lot of homeless guys that seem to live here, so I would be a little cautious about sending my kids to play here by themselves. But we met a couple and they were friendly enough. :)

High Line Canal Trail

This trail is near my apartment and we explored a little more of it than we usually do. The weather has been really nice lately too. Madison and I ran a little bit and Cainen acted like a caveman. 

Kittredge Park

Kittredge Park is a really cute neighborhood park. It has a trail to walk around, a unique playground, and some open grass to play sports. We really had a lot of fun at this park so if you're driving around this area you should go!

John W. Barnes Green

This is not a park! It's not even on the Denver Parks and Rec map, but it does have the same sign as all the Denver parks. It's called "Green" though which is literally just because it's a strip of grass on the side of the road. They have a sign for a strip of grass on the side of the road!

So we had to take a picture of it and include it in our project. Even though right now it's just a strip of snow with bare trees.

Sunset Park

Sunset Park doesn't show up in the Denver Parks and Rec and it has a different sign than the other Denver parks, but it's in Denver! Or it's in Lowry. I'm not even sure. It's right next to a Denver Public Library but right across the street from Lowry Town Square, so it's on some sort of city line between the two. Sometimes Denver is weird with it's suburbs! You never actually know when you've passed into a tiny little town.

Sunset Park is a nice neighborhood park. It has a nice playground and some sort of amphitheater setup which I'm not sure what they might do there. It's really small so not really the type of park you would walk around. It's nice for if you lived in that neighborhood or for us when we want to walk around after going to the library.