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.

Chautauqua Park, Boulder

We did a day trip to Boulder, explored the Chautauqua Park and Pearl St. Mall. It was a really fun day. I'd heard that Boulder had great parks and trails, so I really want to come here and explore some more, but one park at a time! It was the kids' spring break so we wanted to have some fun. We went on this trail that was supposed to loop around, and perhaps it did, but it was getting daunting for us. It's a great workout though. I had fun and started throwing pine cones at the kids, to which they FREAKED OUT. :) It was hilarious. Cainen did a bit more climbing to get some of the view.

Later, at Pearl St. Mall we shopped a little bit and then had lunch. It was a beautiful, perfect day for both activities. Parking is a bit crazy at the trail, but not too bad, at least one this day, downtown by the mall. I would definitely recommend coming to Boulder for the parks and trails for sure, but there are many cultural events as well.

James A. Bible Park

We've been here many times because it's close to where we live. We actually pass by this park every time we go to church and Sprouts. It's a really nice park because of it's size. There's plenty of space for a lot of people to do whatever they would like to do, picnic, play sports, barbecue, or play at the playground. There's a trail that goes all the way around it. There's plenty of parking. The Highline Canal Trail also cuts through it on two sides so it's accessible if you're walking/running/biking on that too. We came here once and saw hawks. This time we came after church just because it was so pretty with the Fall colors. We did do filters on the camera, but only to highlight all the colors that we could see with our eyes that weren't necessarily captured on our phone camera.

Jefferson Square Park

This is a cute little park, plenty of grass to run around and play sports, a school area where Cainen rode his skateboard, trees for shade, and a fun playground. If we were closer I wouldn't mind coming here more often. It's also quieter than some parks, being off a not-so-busy road. The fall colors were so pretty on this day too.