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Piney Creek Trail
4km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
A beautiful trail, which is great for road biking, trail running, and walking. The best times to visit this trail are May through October. This Trail provides a pleasant route across town with few street crossings. The paved pathway begins at the Ponderosa Preserve and heads northwest, winding through residential neighborhoods.
Centennial Center Park
5.3km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Centennial Center Park includes hours of fun for children of all ages. Enjoy one of three climbing walls, two expansive, age-appropriate play areas, and the Nautilus water play area in the center of the park. The outdoor amphitheater features a covered stage and is the ideal spot for concerts, events, and meetings with a capacity of approximately 5,000. The Park features restrooms, picnic tables, six barbeque grills, convenient trash receptacles, parking, and bike racks.
Park Meadows Mall
7.62km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree hosts over 180 shops, with a large bustling Food Hall. This impressive award-winning mall is described as a retail resort by parent company Brookfield Properties.Park Meadows opened in 1996 with Dillard's, and the first Nordstrom in the state of Colorado. Both Foley's and Joslins opened at the mall in 1997, and JCPenney opened in 1999. It became the largest mall in the Denver metropolitan area.
Arapahoe Lake Reservoir
8.44km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Arapahoe Lake Reservoir is a reservoir in Colorado and has an elevation of 1,736 metres.it is situated nearby to Arapahoe Lake Dam, and close to High Plains Elementary School. fishing, swimming, and so many either recreational activities are possible here.
Rueter-Hess Reservoir
9.21km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Rueter–Hess Reservoir, behind the Frank Jaeger Dam, is a major water management project for the Parker Water and Sanitation District PWSD. They has planned for public boating, fishing, swimming, and hiking on and along the reservoir, with the first trails completed and opened in November 2020. As of 2021, the water itself not open for public recreation.
Meadow Hills Golf Course
9.57km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
This is an 18-hole course in Aurora stretches over 6,492 yards, playing to a par of 70. The course's landscape includes six lakes, which provide water hazards that come into play on several holes. The hole is 401 yards and requires a tricky shot over a water hazard. There is also a putting green and on-site teaching pro, as well as twilight discounts.
Bluffs Regional Park Trail
9.59km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Bluffs Regional Park is a 235-acre open space park at the southern reaches of the Denver Metro Area in Douglas County. This park provides a very popular loop trail and two overlooks. Open every day from sunrise to sunset, this park boasts hiking trails, picnic areas, and beautiful scenic views of the city and surrounding area.
The Madden Museum of Art
9.72km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Madden Museum of Art, located in Greenwood Village, CO, promotes research and public education through its Museum collection. Visitors to the Museum can see Museum exhibits, attend events at the Museum, and access Museum educational programs. The Museum supports itself through ticket sales, membership, fundraisers, and donations.
Hoffman Park
9.78km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Hoffman Park is located in Arapahoe County of Colorado. It offers many active recreational opportunities for park users, including access to a tennis court, a pickleball court, a small playground for younger children (primarily ages 5-8), a large, open field for play, and a picnic shelter.
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
9.8km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre is an 18,000-person capacity amphitheatre located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States. It is the largest outdoor amphitheatre in the Denver metropolitan area and is generally open every year from May to September.It features 7,500 fixed seats and a general admission lawn section. The amphitheatre is nestled in Greenwood Plaza near the Denver Technological Center amongst office buildings.
Cherry Creek Reservoir
9.83km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
This is a reservoir that has been created by the damming of the Cherry Creek – a tributary of the South Platte River by the Cherry Creek Dam. The reservoir forms a part of the Cherry Creek State Park and is situated to the southeast of the City and County of Denver, in the Arapahoe County of the US State of Colorado.
Marjorie Park
9.84km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Marjorie Park is a primary venue of the Museum of Outdoor Arts that serves many purposes. Foremost, it is an outdoor museum and exhibits over 40 artworks from MOA’s permanent sculpture collection. The space may also be rented for private and corporate events. Lastly, the park is used as the VIP entrance and amenity to concerts at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre.
Cherry Creek Reservoir
10km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Cherry Creek Reservoir, has a water surface of 880 acres, and a maximum capacity of 134,470 acre-feet. Recreation at the reservoir centers on the facilities of the adjacent Cherry Creek State Park, which offers camping, radio-controlled aircraft, picnicking, opportunities for bird watching, cross country skiing, fishing, horseback riding and an outdoor shooting range.
Plains Conservation Center
10.68km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Plains Conservation Center is a nature preserve and educational center with replicas of a homestead village and tipi camp that showcase pioneer and plains Native Americans life in the late 1800's. This site features a historic schoolhouse, blacksmith shop and barn, an heirloom garden and a chicken coop, and a recreated Cheyenne camp with tipis. The Learning Center and library are open to schools and groups.
Village Greens Park
10.76km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
Village Greens is the largest park in the Greenwood Village system and offers four multi-use playing fields, four softball fields and, two baseball fields that may be permitted. It is home to Cherry Creek High School athletics, multiple youth leagues and the Village’s largest special event, Greenwood Village Day. It also includes a playground, picnic tables, interior restrooms, and a hike / bike trail which connects to the State Park.
Aurora Reservoir
11.7km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Aurora Reservoir covers over 30,000 acres of plains territory with over 800 acres of water surface. It’s located east of Denver in Colorado’s second-largest city, Aurora. The reservoir provides drinking water to the City of Aurora, and is also a recreation area. It is a popular location for local SCUBA centers to take dive students for their open-water certification. More recently, the reservoir has also become a reputable fishing spot mainly for Trout, Walleye and Catfish.
Plains Conservation Center
11.82km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Plains Conservation Center is an outdoor education facility and state-designated natural area in Aurora, Colorado.This is a nature preserve and educational center with replicas of a homestead village and tipi camp that showcase pioneer and plains Native Americans life in the late 1800's. It encompasses over 1,100 acres of short grass prairie with breathtaking views of the Rocky Mountains.
Great Plains Park
12.82km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
The Great Plains Park is located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The place is catalogued as Park by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and its elevation above sea level is equal to 5673ft. This park features a splash pad and two playground areas. It's a great place to hang out and cool off for all ages.
Jewell Wetlands Park
13.52km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
A beautiful wooded wetland located at the northwest corner of Potomac and Jewell Avenue features over a mile of soft and hard surface trails, a boardwalk/deck access into the wetland and a butterfly garden.The boardwalk is in the middle of the wooded area and provides a peaceful nature experience. While the natural area is relatively small, walking both trails is about 2 miles. The park consists of a pond for fishing and a wooded, mostly dry wetland area.
Bingham Lake
13.58km from 17 Mile House Farm Park
A beautiful lake located in the heart of Douglas county and it offers opportunity for fishing, hiking, biking, and picnicking. Bingham Lake is privately owned by the Pinery Water & Wastewater District and is managed by Douglas County Parks and Trails Division.
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17 Mile House Farm Park
8181 S Parker Rd, Centennial, CO 80016, USA
17 Mile House Farm Park is part of a 70-acre Arapahoe County Open Space which includes an 1860s mile house, barn and silo along the historic Smoky Hill/Cherokee Trail route to Denver. It was originally a log cabin, much of which can still be seen.These houses were named based on their distances to downtown Denver. Here travelers could get meals, spend the night, and rest their animals. Of the original mile houses, only 17 Mile House and 4 Mile House exist today.