Arvada
Arvada is a home rule city located in Jefferson and Adams counties, Colorado, United States.
Arvada is a home rule city located in Jefferson and Adams counties, Colorado, United States. The city population was 124,402 at the 2020 United States census, with 121,510 residing in Jefferson County and 2,892 in Adams County. Arvada is the seventh most populous city in Colorado. The city is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. The Olde Town Arvada historic district is 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
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Worth seeing in and around Arvada
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Rocky Flats Plant
The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts near Denver, Colorado. The facility's primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits, the fissionable part of a bomb that produces a nuclear explosion.
4.7 km · defunct American nuclear weapons manufacturing site · Wikipedia - 02Eldorado Mountain
Eldorado Mountain is a mountain summit on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 8,344-foot peak is located 8.1 miles south by west of downtown Boulder, Colorado, United States.
8.4 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia - 03Colorado Railroad Museum
The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum. The museum is located along the former Colorado and Southern Railway line on 19.5 acres at a point where Clear Creek flows between North and South Table Mountains in Golden, Colorado.
9.9 km · railroad museum in Golden, Colorado · Wikipedia - 04Lookout Mountain
Lookout Mountain is a foothill on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 7,377-foot peak is located in Lookout Mountain Park, 1.7 miles west-southwest of downtown Golden in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
9.9 km · mountain in Colorado, United States · Wikipedia - 05North Table Mountain
North Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 6,555-foot mesa summit is located in North Table Mountain Park, 3.4 miles north by east of downtown Golden, Colorado, United States, in Jefferson County.
8.2 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia - 06Eldorado Canyon State Park
Eldorado Canyon State Park is part of the Colorado State Park system. It was established in 1978 and is located in Boulder County south of the city of Boulder.
9.8 km · State park in Colorado, United States · Wikipedia - 07Standley Lake
Standley Lake is a 1,200-acre reservoir located in Westminster, Colorado. While originally constructed to provide water for the agricultural irrigation of the surrounding region northwest of Denver, it now serves primarily as the municipal water supply for the cities of Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton.
9.4 km · reservoir in Westminster, Colorado, United States · Wikipedia - 08Apex Park and Recreation District
The Apex Park and Recreation District is a park and recreation district located in the northeastern portion of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Apex encompasses the portion of City of Arvada and adjacent areas that are located within Jefferson County.
8.2 km · park and recreation district in Colorado, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arvada
- Airports
- Denver (DEN), 48 km · City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS), 125 km
- Denver → Arvada11 km · quickest by road, 33 min · $1.5–2
- Colorado Springs → Arvada110 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · $10–14
- Albuquerque → Arvada542 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · $210–310
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Next door to Arvada
Arvada is 25 km from Denver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.