EVENTS
Upcoming Events
Youth & Family Field Day
April 24, 2025
4:30 - 6:30 pm
A free evening of races, basketball, slacklining, climbing, and more!
A community visioning process for Park Hill Park will begin as part of DPR’s Youth & Family Field Day to determine priorities and opportunities for the park that will enrich the lives of Denver residents and celebrate the natural beauty of the area.
VISION + ABOUT
A Once in a Century Park
The City and County of Denver’s Parks & Recreation (DPR) Department will work closely with the community to convert a former golf course into a 155-acre public park in the heart of the city. The site, which operated as a private golf course from the 1930s until 2018, will be ecologically restored and redesigned as the largest addition to Denver’s park system in more than a century. Park Hill Park will soon stand as the city’s fourth-largest open space—providing a vital new resource in an area long underserved by premier parks and greenways.
The Visioning Process
Over the course of nine months, we will work collaboratively with the community to develop a framework that charts a vision for the future of the site. There will be ample opportunity to get engaged in the project and provide feedback, but we are not starting from scratch. We will build off of the engagement work done in 2021, which was captured in the Park Hill Park Golf Course Prevailing Vision. The parks and open space related priorities from that initial effort are highlighted below:
Create a new, significantly-sized park and community gathering places
Preserve and expand the tree canopy to combat urban heat island effects in this area
Add youth and recreational sports opportunities
PROCESS
Process + Timeline
There are two distinct planning phases within a 9-month process. Click on the phases below to learn more about the intent and components of each phase. Products resulting from each phase, including key takeaways from analysis and assessments, project material, and takeaways from community input will be added to this site as the project advances. Each phase of work includes distinct tasks in the process of generating a preferred framework scenario for the future of the Park Hill Park site.
CONTACT
Stay Involved!
The input of Park Hill neighborhood residents as well as citywide residents will be critical to the success of a future Park Hill Park.
Below are resources that were provided at Activation 1 on April 24th. They illustrate the site inventory conducted to date. Please review at your leisure.
Below are resources, including previous planning documents that will be referenced throughout the project planning process and will help to shape the framework scenario plan for Park Hill Park. As the project advances, additional resources will be provided including information from community meetings. Check back regularly for updates!
