A New Trail is Coming to Golden 🪿

Good morning, Golden! I hope your 2025 is off to a good start!

For all you ski bunnies out there, I hope you’ve been enjoying the pow. ❄️ If you’re headed to the mountains this weekend and need a quick breakfast on the go, see what the Windy Saddle has for you below. 🌯

Today’s report includes:

• 🚴 New Trail Through Golden

• 🔎 Golden History Park’s New Structure

• 🌯 Burritos Before First Tracks

• 📆 Upcoming Events

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🚴 New Trail Through Golden

As any Goldenite knows, Clear Creek Trail gets BUSY in the summer. Golden is working to reduce congestion on the Clear Creek Trail with two new projects:

1. Clear Creek improvements in the short term: improve the south creek trail by widening sections, upgrading crossings, and adding roundabouts to slow cyclists.

2. Creating a secondary trail through Golden in the long term: Golden is eyeing a new trail along the Church Ditch south of Highway 58 (see yellow circle on the map; trail is in red). While steep grades, private property, and coordination with a future sound wall south of Hwy 58 present challenges, this trail would provide a more efficient connection along the Peaks to Plains Trail—the trail under construction that will eventually span from the Continental Divide to the Platte River. A timeline for this project has yet to be established.

As for the current construction on the Peaks to Plains Trail, their website says it’ll “hopefully open in early 2025.” 🤞

Source: The Golden Transcript

🔎 Golden History Park’s New Structure

If you missed the news back in October and looked for a sign but didn’t find one (I looked on Tuesday), the wooden structure installed south of the river in Golden’s History Park is a Native American arbor, a traditional shared gathering space.

It’s part of the Golden History Museum’s ongoing Indigenous Connections Project, and it was dedicated in a special ceremony on October 6.

The circular structure will serve as a gathering space for both the Golden History Museum and Native American programs.

Source: The Golden Transcript

🌯 Burritos Before First Tracks

Grab a burrito and coffee before hitting the slopes. Windy Saddle now serves burritos, pastries, coffee, and cocoa every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 5-7am. 🏂

📆 Upcoming Events

Happening today:

🎵 Free Music at Over Yonder Brewing (tonight @ 5:30-8:30pm): Check out Los Trés Cajónes play a free show while you grab a brewskie beer at Over Yonder. 🍺

Upcoming Events:

☕️ Golden Startup Coffee (1/8 @ 9-11am): Some serious girl power in the house! 🙌 Kristen Taylor, founder and CEO of Mom Juice 🍷 (a low-sugar, clean-ingredient wine company—yes, please!), and Megan Henken, co-founder of MyUTI (not all heroes wear capes), will be speaking. FREE, but register here!

💃 Denver Dance Tribe (1/11 @ 7-10pm): Do you love dancing, but your 2am clubbing days have expired? Find yourself having “micro dance parties” to Taylor Swift alone in your living room? Cool. Me too. These ladies only pop-up events were raved about by a friend, and they sell out so be sure to get your ticket! The next two are in Lakewood and the themes are Ho Down 🤠 and 90’s Prom 🪩.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Your friendly neighborhood goose 🪿,
Kelsey
Publisher | The Golden Goose