PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VIEW FROM “WINDY POINT," ON DENVER'S MOUNTAIN PARK HIGHWAY UP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN; OVERLOOKING GOL] X 
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SEEING DENVER’S MOUNTAIN PARKS 
Denver’s parks are beautiful and unique. 
The newest is Lookout Mountain Park, 
a distinct novelty among municipal parks 
of the nation. Although from fourteen 
to twenty miles from the city limits proper, 
it is owned outright by the municipality 
and is built on ground bought from neigh- 
boring counties and deeded to the city by 
the United States Government. 
Lookout Mountain Park has been 
planned so as to make the most of its 
beautiful natural setting. In the hills, at 
an altitude ranging from 7,000 to 9,000 
feet, it commands one of the best views of 
any eminence in the Rockies. It is cov- 
ered with verdure and is reached by an 
incline railroad and one of the finest 
mountain automobile roads in the world. 
Lookout Mountain Park already has the 
distinction of having had built to it one 
of the foremost mountain boulevards in 
the world. 
Although first opened through the park 
in 1914, the Lookout Mountain road has 
proved such a magnet for automobiles 
that it is now being extended on west- 
ward by Jefferson and Clear Creek coun- 
ties as part of the transcontinental road 
across the range. Idaho Springs, forty 
miles west of Denver and twenty miles 
west of Golden, is co-operating with Den- 
ver in making a road between the three 
cities that will enable automobile tourists 
to visit Idaho Springs easily and to take 
advantage of its curative waters, which 
are high in radioactivity. 
The trip to Lookout can be made from 
Denver entirely by automobile, as “Seeing 
Denver’’ Company has inaugurated daily 
trips, leaving Denver early in the morn- 
ing and returning in the evening. Per- 
haps nowhere in Colorado is the scenic 
grandeur of this trip excelled and the ex- 
cellence of the roads is a revelation. 
In Denver are other handsome, well- 
kept parks, each of which is reached by 
street car as well as over the finest of 
boulevards. City Park, Washington, Chees- 
man Park, Lincoln and Berkeley Parks are 
for free use by the public and compare 
with the best of Metropolitan parks in 
other cities. City Park has a fine zoologi- 
cal garden and Washington and Berkeley 
have bathing beaches of the best. Lake- 
side, Elitch’s Gardens and Manhattan 
Beach are privately owned and a small 
charge is made for admission. 
Colorado’s crowning glory, the feature 
of her wonderful scenery that bids fair 
to prove eventually to be her greatest 
asset, is the Rocky Mountain National 
Park. This park, lying from 60 to 75 
miles northwest of Denver, was created 
out of the region known as Estes Park, 
in January, 1915, by act of the National 
Congress. Rocky Mountain National Park- 
is 229,062 acres in extent and therefore 
contains about 358 square miles. If it were 
square it would be about eighteen miles on 
a side, and its dimensions do not vary 
greatly from that figure in length and 
width. 
Estes Park, from whose area was carved 
Rocky Mountain National Park, has long 
been a favored resort for tourists. The 
flora and fauna of the region have been 
a delight to the naturalist. But the new 
park does not include Estes Park village 
or several other well-known landmarks 
of the older park. The eastern boundary 
of Rocky Mountain Park is the Forest 
reserve line, with the exception of the 
privately owned land west of Horseshoe 
Park, which is eliminated from park 
boundaries. The west boundary of the 
park is the forest reserve line along the 
Grand River. 
Denver has also embarked on the busi- 
ness of making for itself a stately civic 
center, which will be completed, if plans 
do not fail, in 1916. The site has been 
cleared and work of excavafing for sunken 
drives and gardens begun. The civic cen- 
ter is faced by the west elevation of the 
State Capital, which is a magnificent ad- 
ministration building on lines similar to 
the National Capitol at Washington. The 
Carnegie Library building has already been 
completed on the civic center. 
During the past seven years Colorado 
has expended $10,000,000 on its highways, 
and it now offers to the automobile tourist 
a most wonderful series of auto trips into 
the Great Continental Divide. Automo- 
biles can now be driven from all parts of 
the East and the South directly to Denver ; 
once here, we can offer you an entire sea- 
son of delightful trips. 
No one who has not experienced it can 
conceive the charm, the pleasure, the ex- 
hilaration and the lure, of an automobile 
trip in the mountains of Colorado ; you 
come to stay a few days, and it lengthens 
into weeks, and even then you have seen 
but a fraction of the wonders of the “top 
of the world.” 
Colorado has 33,000 miles of roads ; 
