Clear Creek Trail - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting
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About Clear Creek Trail
This 6.5-mile family-friendly urban trail winds through the scenic Wheat Ridge Greenbelt, providing conservation benefits and recreational opportunities including biking, kayaking and bird watching.The Clear Creek Trail connects with another major metro area trail the South Platte River Trail.
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Colorado Railroad Museum
1.01km from Clear Creek Trail
A majestic museum established in 1959 to preserve a record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow-gauge mountain railroads. It has around 15-acre railyard with over 100 locomotives, passenger and freight cars, cabooses and even a G-scale garden railway.All of the railroad equipment is displayed outdoors. Display tracks are complete with a rare three-way stub switch, dual gauge track and switches and century-old switch stands.
South Table Mountain
1.48km from Clear Creek Trail
South Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The most distinctive feature of the mesa is its nearly flat cap that is formed by ancient Paleocene lava flows. It is a popular scenic and recreational destination in the Denver metro area, and most of it is preserved as Jefferson County Open Space.
Foothills Art Center
2.13km from Clear Creek Trail
Located in historic downtown Golden, Foothills Art Center leads and inspires the community through art, education, and cultural excellence with engaging exhibitions and dynamic arts programming for learners of all ages. The center is housed in an 1872 Gothic-style church, an 1892 Queen Anne style manse and a Victorian-era mansion built in 1899 – all surrounded by a sculpture garden at 809 15th Street in downtown Golden, Colorado.
Golden History Park
2.27km from Clear Creek Trail
The Golden History Park is a three-acre outdoor learning lab with historic and reproduction buildings that replicate a 19th-century mountain homestead.The Museum features programming spaces, a hands-on gallery for families with young children, and dynamic new exhibits that highlight the City’s collection of historic objects.
Mines Museum of Earth Science
2.51km from Clear Creek Trail
The Mines Museum of Earth Science, is a geology museum based in the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. The museum has two floors in which it displays fossils, gemstones, meteorites, minerals, and mining artifacts, including the Colorado lunar sample displays. The museum acts as the Colorado state repository for mineral heritage.
North Table Mountain
2.62km from Clear Creek Trail
North Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The most distinctive feature of the mesa is its nearly flat cap that was formed by ancient Paleocene lava flows. It is separated from companion South Table Mountain, which consists of the same geologic formation, by Clear Creek. It is a popular scenic and recreational destination in the Denver metro area, and it is preserved as public open space by Jefferson County and the Access Fund.
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Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. This county and the surrounding area has plenty of attractions for all different interests.
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