Denver Neighborhoods
Denver, the capital of Colorado, was established by a party of prospectors on November 22, 1858, after a gold discovery at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. Town founders named the dusty crossroads for James W. Denver, Governor of Kansas Territory, of which eastern Colorado was then a part. Other gold discoveries sparked a mass migration of some 100,000 in 1859-60, leading the federal government to establish Colorado Territory in 1861.
The Rocky Mountain metropolis boomed during the 1990s, as the eastern suburb of Aurora became Colorado’s third-largest city and the western suburb of Lakewood became the fourth-largest. Even the core City and County of Denver gained population in the 1990s for the first time since the 1970s, climbing once again beyond the 500,000 mark and the metro area reached a population of 2.1million in 2000. Thanks to landmark districts preserving venerable business and residential areas, as well as the 1990s opening in the core South Platte River Valley of Coors Baseball Field, Six Flags Elitch Gardens Amusement Park, Ocean Journey Aquarium, Pepsi Athletic Center, Invesco Field at Mile High, and many new housing projects, downtown Denver is booming as well as its suburban fringe, at the dawn of the 21st century.
Denver is made up of neighborhoods that are as diverse and unique as the people who live here. Click on the links to the right for more information!
North Denver (including Highlands and Sloan's Lake)