Greater Park Hill News: 60 Years Chronicling The Neighborhood By Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN Imagine Park Hill with a constant roar of airplanes taking off and landing at the airport next door, rattling your doors, your walls, your nerves. Imagine Park Hill with large swaths of nearby City Park paved over for zoo and museum […]
Historic Character Defines Park Hill, But These Old Homes Are Gone Forever By Amy Zimmer and Bernadette Kelly For the GPHN As Denver rapidly changes, few neighborhoods have been able to retain their historic character. Yet that is one of the reasons why many residents are drawn to Park Hill. According to the Greater Park […]
The News Informs, Entertains, and Exercises Us Every Month By Jack and Pam Farrar For the GPHN The esteemed editor of this publication, on the occasion of its 60th year, has asked us to trip down memory lane. We’re glad to oblige. We moved to Park Hill in 1975. Some people expressed sympathy when we […]
Downy Woodpeckers are the smallest woodpeckers in North America, common and widespread in Colorado in all seasons. They are about six inches long, and checkered in black and white. The males, like this one, have a small red patch on their heads. These little guys are real acrobats, hitching around tree limbs and trunks and […]
Can We Preserve Our Fundamental Freedoms? “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted by Congress in 1789, ratified by the states in 1791, and with the Second through Tenth Amendments forms the Bill of Rights. It […]
Denver Recycles accepts all your old and worn-out holiday light strings from mid-November to mid-January at various drop-off locations. Last year they collected well over 5,000 pounds of lights. Soon the website (Denvergov.org) will post drop-off locations. The location nearest to Park Hill will most likely be the Cherry Creek Recycling drop-off, at 7352 Cherry […]
Ingredients Include Good Stewardship, Hard Work, A Great Newspaper The Greater Park Hill News celebrates its 60 years of terrific reporting and providing the news of the day of our neighborhood to you. We are one of the few papers (if not the only) that is delivered to your doorstep by a set of dedicated […]
A bison bull contemplates the fresh snow falling on the morning of Oct. 25. The bison is part of the herd at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, about eight miles north of Park Hill. Photo by Reid Neureiter
Blueprint For Neighborhoods Does Not Adequately Address Parks, Traffic, Height, Affordability By Blair Taylor For the GPHN In 2017, the city initiated a series of small area planning efforts, including the East Area Plan (EAP). The briefing book for the plan, which includes the neighborhoods of Park Hill, East Colfax, Hale, and Montclair, states its […]
The European mantis certainly looks chic and debonair, but that’s not why it has the name. Nor do these species of praying mantis live only in Europe – they are right here in Park Hill as well. They are simply a bit larger than other species of mantis. As the website Keeping Insects notes, the […]