Globeville Landing Park

There are so many Denver neighborhoods that are kind of cities and kind of not, so I'm never quite sure where I am. But going to the Argo Park and this one, I saw a sign that said "Entering Globeville." I didn't know if it was a city, town, or what. It's a neighborhood now, but it used to be a city. It has always been home to immigrants. In the beginning people from Austria, Russia, and Croatia lived there, but not there more Hispanic/Latinos in the neighborhood. It's very industrial and isolated because of the freeway, train tracks, and South Platte River. When you first drive up to the park it seems like a tiny section of grass, but once you walk over the small hill you see that it connects to both the South Platte River Trail and the Colorado Front Range Trail. You can walk off to the right where there are picnic benches and then a bridge the goes under the train tracks. We didn't walk on the trail too far, but looked at all the graffiti and out over the water. There wasn't a playground or really any place to play sports, but because of the trails it was busy with bikers, mostly. The photos below are of the South Platte River, the train, and all the graffiti under the train and over in this other area, but also some graffiti right down the street from here as we were heading home. I typically wouldn't give a park like this a 5 Star rating, but because it was so interesting and fun exploring, I did this time.