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Volunteer Day
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Please join us for a day of pulling weeds along Sand Creek from 8:30 am to Noon.
A Pull-4-CO event to rid our waterway of noxious plants and repair our creek!
Fun for all – please join us. Email
us for more information.
ZOOMA Women's Race Series: Denver
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Starts at 7:30am in Central Park, Stapleton
This fall we are excited to have a running race celebrating women’s health along Sand Creek Regional Greenway. Both women and men are encouraged to participate by either running in or volunteering for either the half-marathon or 5 mile race. Run in style with wine tastings, brunch, live music, massages and shopping at the event put on by ZOOMA. Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership and St. Jude Heros are the official charity partners of their Denver race. For more information about the event please check out ZOOMA’s website. If you would like to sign up to volunteer at this event to help raise money for the charity partners, please check out the online volunteer registration page at Active.com.
Prescribed Burn along Sand Creek
April 7th
Thanks to the whole community for supporting the very successful ecological burn that occurred on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. The Denver Fire Department led the project with the support of the Denver Parks and Recreation Natural Areas Program and the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership. Work began at 7am and was completed by 3pm. Key areas with heavy growth of invasive weeds were targeted and burned. Ecologists are looking forward to monitoring the burn areas over the next several months to see the changes to native plants.
To see photos of the burn, please check out our photo page.
To find out more information about the burn please click here.
Volunteer opportunities
Spring/Summer 2009
Want to get outside and help brighten our community? Volunteer for Sand Creek or our neigbor Bluff Lake this spring and summer. Click here for more information.
Construction Alert at Aurora’s Star K Ranch
Crews are out in full force along the Sand Creek Greenway at Star K Ranch to remove invasive Russian olive trees and Siberian elms. Both of these trees are not native and removal is necessary to restore native habitat. Also, the trees need to be removed to improve the flood control along Sand Creek. The trees are being chipped with the majority of the mulch being trucked away – but with some being left onsite as mulch. We apologize for the noise and disruption along the Greenway now and for the next several weeks (January and February).
Also, the Aurora police have notified the visitors to Sand Creek Greenway and Star K Ranch that a person of interest has been seen in the area. He calls himself Jesus and he has a ‘barbed-wire’ tattooed across his forehead and several other tattoos down his arms. If you see him, please call the police department. He is considered dangerous; he is wanted for battery and assault.
Join I-Give!
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An easy (and free) way to donate to Sand Creek Greenway while doing your holiday shopping – or anytime!
I-Give is an online shopping website that donates a percentage of the purchase price back to a non-profit of your choice. It is easy because the shops are brand name businesses where you already shop, like Expedia, Amazon, Macy's and PetsMart. These businesses, and hundreds more, have agreed to give a certain percentage back (from 2-26 %) to the charity of YOUR choice! Find out more about this great opportunity to give to Sand Creek while doing your ordinary shopping (Click here for details).
"Old Friends, New Partners" reception a great success!
Friday October 17th, 2008
 
Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership,
Adams County Commissioner W.R. “Skip” Fischer,
Mayor of Aurora Ed Tauer, Adams County Commissioner Alice Nichol,
Mayor of Commerce City Paul Natale,
Adams County Commissioner Larry Pace &
Mayor of Denver John Hickenlooper came together to honor United States Senator Ken Salazar,
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers &
the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, with special guest Governor Bill Ritter.
The roundtable discussion, reception, speakers and silent auction were all well received and great fun. Please check out our photos page for more pictures (click here).
Our REI Volunteer Work-day was a huge success!
 September 6th, 2008
Over 100 people joined us to clear out Russian olive trees and plant new willows and chokecherries along the greenway near Bluff Lake and the Dahlia trailhead in Commerce City. Thank you so much to everyone who helped to organize and volunteered at this great event. Check out pictures of all our hard workers in their fun, new t-shirts here.
On Saturday, we moved and chipped 80 Russian olive trees; cut down 15 tamarisk trees; and we planted 140 coyote willows and 80 choke cherry trees. Groups from the Daniels School of Business, Boy Scout Troop 376, HSPER, Democrats Work, CARENET AmeriCorps, as well as many individuals helped to improve the greenway for everyone. Thank you!
Trail
Detours:
Use
the on street bike path along Havana. South-bound from Florence
Way to 29th Dr. North-bound
stay on Havana. Use extra caution and be very alert if you
ride your bicycle or walk through this area. There
is major road building on Havana St. and Martin Luther King
Blvd.
Donate
Now to make the Greenway ALL it can be!
Friend
of Sand Creek Greenway Membership
We
have a trail, but still need trailheads, major park development,
and more. Can you help? ... click
here
General
Information
Sand
Creek Regional Greenway is another jewel in the necklace of
trails that has made the metropolitan Denver area a national
model for developing a linked regional trail system. This
almost 14-mile public greenway connects the High Line Canal
in Aurora, Colorado with the Platte River Greenway in Commerce
City. Along the way, it passes through Denver and the former
Stapleton International Airport site. We invite you to become
acquainted with a part of our region that is fragile and perishable.Please note: There are a number of creeks in
Colorado named "Sand Creek." This Sand Creek is
not the location of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. For more
information on that Sand Creek, please visit http://www.colorado.edu/csilw/sandcreek.htm.
Morrison
Nature Center
The Morrison Nature Center is open at Star K Ranch. Learn
about the historic Stark homestead and about the wildlife
and their wetland habitat. Hours
and Directions
Thank
you for your support!
It's only with the dedication of our volunteers,
and the support from our community,
that Sand Creek Regional Greenway is possible.
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