The Great Cottonwood Hide and SeekThe Conservancy is excited to be participating in the City Nature Challenge, an international event to find and document wildlife in cities across the word. If you have a chance to get out and record plants and wildlife on the Canal, an essential plant to keep an eye out for [...]
My name is Jack, and I am the High Line Canal Conservancy’s (Conservancy) Stormwater and Natural Resources Fellow. As we’ve covered in previous blogs, the High Line Canal (Canal) is undergoing an exciting transition. For the first hundred-plus years of its existence, it served as an irrigation canal, distributing water from the South Platte [...]
High Line Canal Trail Overview The High Line Canal and its trail, at 71 miles long, run from Waterton Canyon to Green Valley Ranch, just south of Denver International Airport. Zigging, curving, and zagging, the trail of asphalt, concrete, and soft surface gravel, meanders through rural, urban and suburban Denver and Aurora. Only falling [...]
Guest Blog by Nick Thomas Heron Photo Credit Nick Thomas Birds show up. They put one wing in front of the other, they get up early, they do their best to make sure their young are fed and protected, they show courage, they never back out of their obligations. Their lives are [...]
I have lived by and loved the High Line Canal for most of my adult life. I logged countless pleasant miles on its dirt and tree-lined path, but my most memorable and joyful time on the Canal was when I was joined on the path by my little grandson. Our walks began when he [...]
In January of 2021, the High Line Canal Conservancy moved the nonprofit’s operations to Denver Water’s historic Little Dry Creek property in Centennial – a property that has historically played a significant role in the maintenance and care of the 71-mile-long High Line Canal. The partnership between Denver Water and the High Line Canal [...]
Janak Garg is on the High Line Canal trail every day. He has been most of his life. These days he bikes about 10 miles on the Canal before work and is walking on it in the evenings. Every day he feels grateful it is there. The Canal has been there for him in [...]
Healthy competition and community support drive S&D Marketing | Advertising everyday but when they learned about The Walk FOR the Canal, they changed their motto from “Where Marketing Works” to “Where Marketing WALKS!” Many of the S&D staff had already been escaping to the High Line Canal for much-needed respite during the pandemic, so [...]
This summer, Melissa Menard signed up to Walk FOR the Canal, joined six Canal community clean-up events, and participated in a brush removal event. In 2004, the High Line Canal was just a line on a map for her. When she stopped by our Canal Table in Aurora a few weeks back, she shared [...]
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