After spending tens of millions on land since 1981, Jefferson County is considering a new trailhead west of Arvada — to the chagrin of residents nearby.
When you support our community-rooted newsroom, you enable all of us to be better informed, connected, and empowered during this important election year. Give now and help us raise $12,000 by June 7.After four decades of buying enormous tracts of land west of Arvada , Jefferson County is considering new hiking trails in an unblemished area less than thirty miles from downtown Denver.
"If they want to give access to that open space, there's a better place to do it," Bisque argues."It doesn't seem to me like want to discuss. They just want to do what they want to do."says he's the lone Blue Mountain resident supporting the trailhead opening close to his neighborhood.
Blue Mountain Estates is completely surrounded by the study area, and the proposed hiking trails would run through land north of the neighborhood. According to the Coal Creek Study Area website, Jefferson County bought the forty acres of land east of Blue Mountain Estates from the Bisque family in 1998 for preservation.If plans are approved, a parking lot and trailhead would be built next to this firehouse at 9775 Blue Mountain Drive in Arvada.
"We studied the elements of the , and it includes the topography, what's happening on the ground with wildlife, the flora and the fauna, and other things," he says."I have not heard anyone tell me we have to come in off Blue Mountain Road from the fire station, but what we're looking at is using the northern portion of that part for access. It's just leading us there.
Swartzwelter says the county bought the land with the added intention of keeping it from being developed into homes.
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