Sunrise from Nightbird Gulch Trail
Photo by Buglet Battery
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Blue Heron on Clear Creek
Photo by Alan Pinkus
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Friday, Jul. 25th
- All day - The Friday Tour
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Buffalo Bill Days
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9:30-10:30AM - Rooftop Yoga
- 10:15-10:45AM - Toddler Time - Registration Required
- 6:30-9:30PM - Nature Journal Club: Moth Madness @ Lookout Mtn Nature Center
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Buffalo Bill Days Begins
Buffalo Bill Days begins tonight! The craft vendors, food trucks, and children's activities will be open from 5-10PM in Parfet Park.
Some first-class entertainment will be on stage:
5-6:30PM DanceX @ Buffalo Bill Days - Parfet Park
7-10PM Chris Daniels & The Kings @ Buffalo Bill Days - Parfet Park
Tomorrow:
6-10AM Golden Fire Department Pancake Breakfast
10AM Parade on Washington Avenue
See the full schedule.
10:30AM and 1:30PM Friday Tours @ Colorado Railroad Museum
Each Friday, join us for an hour of exploring a different aspect of Colorado’s railroad history. Each tour covers a specific theme and today our focus will be: Freight Trains!
Tours are subject to change and are based on guide availability. Each week’s theme is explored using a variety of museum resources to help bring the subject to life with the understanding that guests are welcome to continue their visit on their own after the tour.
Friday Tour Tickets - $3 each plus General Admission ($10 adults, $5 kids 2-15, $8 seniors 60+).
Today's Topic
Location:
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (Map)
6:30-9:30PM Nature Journal Club: Moth Madness @ Lookout Mtn Nature Center
Celebrate National Moth Week by learning about these insects, searching for them outside, and sketching your discoveries. This program will take place both indoors and outdoors. Registration is required. Free
Location:
Lookout Mountain Nature Center
910 Colorow Road (Map)
When:
6:30-9:30PM on Friday, Jul. 25th
Live Music for Friday, Jul. 25th
- 7PM Mz Vendetta and Missing Blonde @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
- 6:30PM RADO @ Goosetown Station
- More Live Music
5-6:30PM Hazel Miller @ Buffalo Bill Days - Parfet Park
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
7-10PM Chris Daniels & The Kings @ Buffalo Bill Days - Parfet Park
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Channeling Clear Creek
1882 view of Golden showing the braided channel (arrow) of Clear Creek. Smoke in background is from a smelter. View east. X9791, DPL WHC, used with permission.
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By Donna Anderson and Paul Haseman
Before about 1870, the Clear Creek channel through central Golden was wide, with sand bars intertwined like braids. A braided channel pattern is common where a stream channel changes from a confined zone, as in the inner gorge of Clear Creek, to a broader unconfined area. As streamflow spreads out at the mouth of a canyon, the water cannot carry as much sediment, so the sediment drops out, or is deposited, commonly into a series of braided sand and gravel bars.
Since the 1880s, Clear Creek channel has been greatly modified. First modified in the late 1870s and 1880s, Coors Brewery built large ice ponds on the south side of the channel, east of Washington Street. Gold dredging from 1904 to 1908 further modified the Creek channel east of Coors Brewery leaving behind large piles of boulders and cobbles from gold dredging operations. Eventually Clear Creek was completely straightened to become a flood-control channel through the Clear Creek Valley east of the Ford Street Bridge. West of Ford Street, human activity gradually modified the original sand bars (Fig. 51) of Clear Creek.
In 1886, hydraulic gold mining near the canyon mouth filled-in the channel with sediment from those operations (Chapter 8). The City of Golden built its water-supply ponds along the channel on the north side of the Creek in the late 1800s. The Creek channel was further filled in to create the western end of 11 th Street around the time that the Mines Experimental Plant was built in 1912. When US Hwy-6 was constructed at the canyon mouth in 1950, bridging Clear Creek required narrowing the channel below the highway. At the time, like many rivers in the U.S., Clear Creek was viewed as more of a flood-control channel (and an open sewer) rather than an amenity that people might enjoy. However, in 1998, the channel was restored for recreation by creating bends and pools within the channel between the US Hwy-6 and Ford Street bridges, forming the now-very popular kayak run and open-space trails on either side of the Creek.
This was an excerpt from Golden Rocks: The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado by Donna Anderson and Paul Haseman.
The authors have granted me permission to reprint excerpts, but I recommend that you read the whole book. You can buy a copy from the Lulu website, borrow one from the library (there’s a waiting list!), or read it online for free.
Weather
Overnight: Areas of smoke. Mostly cloudy. Low around 60, with temperatures rising to around 62 overnight. West wind around 6 mph.
Friday: Areas of smoke before noon, then patchy smoke and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 2pm, then patchy smoke and a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny. High near 88, with temperatures falling to around 84 in the afternoon. North northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday Night: Patchy smoke before 9pm. Partly cloudy. Low around 63, with temperatures rising to around 66 overnight. Southwest wind around 9 mph.
Friday Night: Patchy Smoke then Partly Cloudy, 63°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 90°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Clear, 64°F
Sunday: Sunny, 94°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 66°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny, 94°F
Monday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 67°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 90°F
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 64°F
Wednesday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Showers And Thunderstorms, 80°F
Wednesday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms, 61°F
Thursday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 79°F
News About Golden - July 25, 2025
City of Golden, Colorado breaks ground on new city hall, police department building
By Andrew Haubner
CBS Colorado
Wednesday, the City of Golden, Colo., broke ground on a project nearly six years in the making. The municipal building, which will house the city hall and the police department, will be moved from its current location in the center of town on 10th street to a plot on the east end of Golden near the Coors plant. A patch of dirt that will soon become a new symbol of the future of the city... Read more...
Golden breaks ground on new city hall and police headquarters
By Sage Kelley
Denver Gazette
Shovels struck dirt Wednesday evening as Golden officially broke ground on its new city hall and police headquarters... Read more...
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