Cherry Creek Trail (Cherry Creek Park to High Line Canal) - Denver, CO
This is a small 1.9 mile section that goes from near the Cherry Creek Dam to where the Cherry Creek Trail intersects with the High Line Canal Trail in the south part of Denver. This trail continues for about 10 more miles all the way to the Platte River near downtown Denver.
See the other sections of the Cherry Creek Trail in the following videos:
Highline Canal Trail
The HLC begins at a diversion dam on the South Platte River, some 1.8 miles (2.9 km) into Waterton Canyon. After passing through the mouth of the canyon, the HLC runs 66 miles (106 km) to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, passing through Douglas, Arapahoe, and Denver Counties. The HLC was designed to carry nearly three-quarters of a billion gallons of water per day, but actually averages only 71 million gallons. The canal today has a water capacity of 600 cubic ft/sec. The HLC was originally conceived as a major irrigation canal in the late 19th century, but is better known to Colorado residents today as a source of recreation.[2] Designated a National Landmark Trail, it is a popular destination for Denver's outdoor enthusiasts and is open all year to hikers, bikers, and equestrians.
Beyond The Green: The High Line Canal Trail
This video is about The High Line Canal Trail in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
High Line Canal diversion dam
Denver Water is rebuilding the High Line Canal diversion dam in Waterton Canyon along the South Platte River. The original dam was built in 1870 and had to be replaced after it was damaged by high water flows in 2015.
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Big Colorado Sky
Washington Park Denver Colorado. What a beautiful day for a walk in the park!
The Ames Monument - 2017 Narrow Gauge Convention
On the trip out to Denver, we stopped by the strange Ames Monument at what was at one time, the highest point on the Union Pacific. The Ames Monument has been called a 65 foot pile of steaming hubris.
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Erected in 1880, the pyramid is a monument to the Ames Brothers, Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers. Oliver became president of the Union Pacific, as the story goes at the insistence of Abraham Lincoln. Brother Oakes was a congressman from Massachusetts.
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The Ames Monument is a large pyramid in Albany County, Wyoming, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers. The brothers garnered credit for connecting the nation by rail upon completion of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Oakes, a U.S. representative to the United States Congress from Massachusetts, asserted near total control of its construction, whereas Oliver became president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1866 - 1871).[1] In 1873 investigators implicated Oakes in fraud associated with financing of the railroad. Congress subsequently censured Oakes, who resigned in 1873.[2] He died soon thereafter.
The Ames Monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet (2,514 m] However, Union Pacific Railroad Company twice relocated the tracks further south, causing the town of Sherman that arose near the monument to become a ghost town.
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The audacity of building a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s was today's equivalent of the mission to Mars: Big, expensive and impossible, according to University of Wyoming historian Phil Roberts. President Abraham Lincoln reportedly told Oakes Ames that if he could get the transcontinental railroad built then he would be the most remembered man of the century. Lincoln personally recruited Oakes after progress by and financial support for Credit Mobilier of America, the construction company charged with building the railroad, ground to a halt. The Ames brothers succeeded where others failed and completed the transcontinental railway. However, in 1873 charges of financial fraud were leveled at Oakes, tarnishing his and the Union Pacific Railroad Company's reputation.
Public outcry towards Oakes and other Kings of Frauds associated with scandal threatened the Ames family reputation and the Ames Company that dated back to 1774 when the company started making steel-edged shovels.[5] The Ames Company later sold axes and shovels to miners during the California Gold Rush.[7] The company continued its heritage as earth movers by supplying the government shovels during the Civil War, for excavating the Panama Canal, for mining Pennsylvania coal fields, and for digging the New York City Subway.[5]
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Memory of the financial scandal that surfaced in 1873 had not been forgotten when the Union Pacific Railroad Company built the monument honoring the Ames brothers during 1881-1882.[6] The Union Pacific Railroad Board of Directors voted in 1875 to erect the grand Ames Monument, in part to help reclaim some of the company's luster lost during implications of fraud leveled earlier at Oakes Ames.[2] Union Pacific stockholders subsequently authorized the construction at a meeting held in Boston on March 10, 1875.[1]
The Norcross Brothers of Worcester, Massachusetts built the monument, employing some 85 workers who lived on site, where reportedly no liquor or gambling was allowed.[1] Workers cut the stone for the pyramid from a granite outcropping common in the area. They then used oxen teams to skid the stone a half-mile to the work site. The rough-faced granite blocks used to construct the monument in many cases weigh several tons.
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Workers constructed the pyramid about 300 yards south of the tracks on a small knoll. When completed in 1882, the Ames Monument stood 300 feet (91 m) south of, and 32 feet (9.8 m) above, the highest elevation of the original tracks of Union Pacific transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet (2,514 m). President Rutherford B. Hayes underscored the importance of the transcontinental railroad and thereby the Ames brothers by attending the monument's dedication ceremony.
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Mark's GoPro Run
An out and back run on the Highline Canal Trail in Denver, Colorado suburbs starting in Cherry Hills, South Dalia Street near Quincy and going to Greenwich Village, East Orchard Road. Sunday March 16th, 2014 4:00- 5:30PM
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Cloud seeding in Colorado
Denver Water partners with 6 other Front Range water providers to support the Central Colorado Mountains Cloud Seeding Program. The goal is to increase snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
Denver Walk
Sightseeing walkabout in Denver's uptown area.
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East 17th Place (Aurora, Norfolk Glen, Colorado) to Helena Street
Watch in 720p full-screen to view map info. Visit for more info. - Waypoints: 0:31 East Colfax Avenue
0:33 Highline Canal
0:33 Highline Canal Trail
0:37 Laredo Street
0:43 Altura
0:44 Jasper Street
0:48 Helena Street
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East 17th Place (Aurora, Denver, CO, Adams County) to Helena Street (Aurora, CO)
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Walk2Connect
Walk2Connect is a Colorado-based social enterprise that creates whole health outcomes through innovative walking programs focused on connection to others, to place and to self. Walk2Connect was started in 2012 by Founder, Jonathon Stalls, after completing the Camino de Santiago in Spain and his 8.5 month 3030 mile walk across the United States in 2010.
Since launched, Stalls has grown the organization to having more than 30 same time, same place walks weekly, led by volunteers, throughout Denver and across the Denver metro area, which includes Golden, Boulder, Arvada and Aurora.
Farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River
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The Colorado River, in the south-western United States, supports a population of about 40 million people, but it's under pressure from both climate change and population growth.
Tomorrow (Thursday 15 August) the US federal government will release a highly anticipated projection on whether the river is able to support the region's growing population.
On the ground, scientists are already developing new technologies to help farmers use water more efficiently.
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Irrigation pipes and ditches like these have made farming possible and profitable in America's vast southwest.
The Colorado River basin sprawls across seven states, supporting a population of 40 million people and an agricultural industry worth $5 billion per year.
Water is the region's most precious commodity, but it's forecast to be in increasingly short supply.
At this experimental farm in north eastern Colorado, researchers are trying to work out how to use it most efficiently.
This is a limited irrigation research farm where we're trying to understand how we can maintain high crop yields with less water, explains US Department of Agriculture Research Scientist Kendall DeJonge.
Just outside of the city of Greeley, this site is part of a project that could revolutionise agriculture across the United States and beyond.
Scientists here monitor each drop of water entering the soil.
They also run controlled experiments, cutting back on water for some crops to try to get the best harvest with the least amount of moisture - a practice called deficit irrigation.
Kendall DeJonge says it's a delicate task.
We're measuring our irrigations, which are different. I mean, you go 50 feet away and it's completely different than what you'll get here. We're measuring energy balance - where the actual vapour that's coming off of the crop - we're measuring sap flow that's going through the plant itself, we're measuring soil water status and changes in soil water balance. And then we're running things in the sky, we're running a UAV - or what's commonly called a drone - which is about to take off right there, it sounds like. We put that up in the sky and we'll measure canopy cover and canopy temperature, multi-spectral reflectance, he says.
The drones are a key part of the team's work here at Greeley, capturing images of the crop from the air, which researchers then analyse for signs of crop stress.
This year, the Colorado River basin has plenty of water, after an unusually snowy winter in the mountains of the American West.
But climatologists warn the river's long term outlook is uncertain at best and dire at worst, and competition for water will only intensify as the population grows and the climate changes.
The more water your plant's going to use, the more yield you have. And that's generally true and it's generally more or less a linear fashion or some exceptions to that. What we're trying to do is find a point above that where you're actually getting more yield per water use or more crop per drop, DeJonge says.
The World Resources Institute says the seven Colorado River states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have some of the highest levels of water stress in the USA, based on the percentage of available supplies they use in a year.
Tomorrow, the US federal government will release a closely watched projection on whether the system has enough water to meet all the demands of downstream states in future years.
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