Autumn Sunrise
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Oct. 20th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 8-9AM - What's Brewing Golden
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - KaffeeKlatsch
- 9-11AM - DeLong Park Habitat Helpers
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-11AM - Story Time and Craft @ The Railroad Museum
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time - Registration Required
- 2-3:15PM - AI Regulation Walkout
- 2:30PM - Local Licensing Authority Meeting
- 4-5:30PM - Young Creatives – Fall Session 2, Ages 7-12
- 5:30-7:30PM - Exploring the Elements of Art
- 6-7:45PM - Golden Beer Talks
- 6:30-8PM - Financial Education Event, But First Chocolate
- 6:30PM - Trivia Night @ Bivy Beer Bar
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday @ Buffalo Rose
- 6:30-8:30PM - Toad Trivia
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night @ VFW
- 7PM - Pub Trivia @ Atomic Cowboy
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
8-9AM What's Brewing Golden @ Connects Workspace Red Rocks
Join us for hot coffee & hot topics around town!
What's Brewing is a monthly meeting, held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 8 - 9 am. Each month you will hear an update from City Council, Downtown Development Authority (DDA/GURA), City of Golden Police, regional representatives and the Golden Chamber, along with a Business Spotlight. What's Brewing Golden not only offers an opportunity to hear from the City and Chamber, but is a great way for our business community to connect.
This meeting is open to all businesses within the Golden area but with a focus on small businesses and restaurants within the City limits of Golden. This meeting is provided as a service by the Golden Chamber of Commerce. Chamber membership is highly encouraged but is not required to attend. Guests are welcome. More information
Location:
Connects Workspace Red Rocks
18475 West Colfax Avenue (Map)
9AM Golden Seniors - KaffeeKlatsch @ Golden Welcome Center
Hey, Golden Seniors! Join your friends at the Welcome Center for coffee and conversation! We meet on the Creekside Patio or the Heritage Community Boardroom. Sponsored by the Golden Welcome Center, Golden Pond Retirement Community and the Rotary Club of Golden.
Location:
Golden Welcome Center
1010 Washington Avenue (Map)
10-11AM Story Time and Craft @ The Railroad Museum
Join staff and volunteers at the Colorado Railroad Museum as they share some of their favorite children’s stories with a decidedly railroad theme followed by a fun make and take. Recommended ages 4-6 years old. Free for Museum Members and included with general admission. More information.
Location:
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (Map)
2-3PM Central Golden Bike-Pedestrian Ribbon Cutting
The new separated bike lanes run along Ford and Jackson from 14th to 24th Streets - Photo by Patrick Klein
City Council, the Mobility and Transportation Advisory Board, and City staff will celebrate completion of the Central Golden Bike and Pedestrian project with community members. Parking available at First United Methodist.
Location:
1600 Jackson St. (map)
4-5:30PM Young Creatives – Fall Session 2, Ages 7-12 @ Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
Join us and discover how creative thinking can be part of everyday life! In this after-school program, we’ll explore a wide variety of art forms through fun, hands-on projects and activities. Rather than focusing on just one medium, students will explore many ways to express their ideas — from drawing and painting to sculpture, mixed media, and more. This program is perfect for curious young artists who love to experiment, explore, and try it all! More information
Location:
Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
809 15th Street (Map)
6-7:45PM Golden Beer Talks @ Buffalo Rose
Photo by Keith Yoder
Topic: Clear Creek Trail Update
Speaker: Scot Grossman
Brewery: Westbound and Down
An evening hosted by Golden Beer Talks centers around a brief, informative and entertaining presentation by an expert on an irresistibly enticing topic. Each event features beer for sale from one of our local breweries, along with a variety of delicious food and drink offerings from the Buffalo Rose kitchen and bar.
It's Golden's own grassroots version of TED talks for the benefit of our own local community--and just for the fun of it. Golden Beer Talks is a nonprofit venture focused on three favorite local things--Golden and Beer and Talking!
Tonight's Topic: the Clear Creek Trail
Clear Creek Trail—Formerly Known As Peaks to Plains Trail: What Does it Take to Build a World-Class Park through One of Colorado’s Most Dramatic and Environmentally Sensitive Canyons?
The Clear Creek Trail, formerly known as the Peaks to Plains Trail, is part of an ambitious vision to connect the Denver metro area to the Continental Divide through 65 miles of trail. In Clear Creek Canyon Park, the route winds beneath towering canyon walls, follows world-class whitewater, and passes through habitat shared by bighorn sheep, cliff-nesting raptors, multiple threatened or endangered species, and of course, countless outdoor recreationists.
Join us to hear the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from delivering this one-of-a-kind project and discover how careful planning, collaborative delivery, and precise construction are helping to balance environmental conservation with growing demand for recreation. Learn more at www.goldenbeertalks.org.
Location:
Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue (Map)
The Golden Word - 10/20/26
Golden History: A Horrible Accident on a Horrendous Road
Dennis & Cunningham Livery, Feed & Sale Stable - Golden History Museum Collection
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For nearly a century after Golden was founded, the road to Boulder was infamously awful. The Transcript wrote many articles over the years, decrying the state of that road.
122 Years Ago
The October 20, 1904 Colorado Transcript described "A Disastrous Mountain Ride." It describes a large party of schoolteachers that wanted to picnic in the mountains. They took a train from Denver to Golden then hired wagons and drivers to take them to a scenic area in Golden Gate Canyon. The Dennis & Cunningham stable provided an omnibus with four horses (driven by Joe Dennis), a wagonette also drawn by four horses, and a three seat carriage.
The trip up and down the canyon went without incident, but as they approached Golden, they had to navigate the abominable valley road. Two of the women on the omnibus sat in the high, outside seat with the driver.
[The road]...was in fairly good shape until the point was reached where the accident occurred. Here was a stretch of road built along the foot of the hogback which was in bad order, it being full of deep ruts, with rocks projecting from the sides and too narrow for the passage of heavy vehicles wider than the standard gauge.
[Mr. Dennis]...found it impossible to avoid all the rocks projecting into the roadway; as the left fore-wheel passed over a rock which protruded from the bank about a foot above the road-bed the ladies both grabbed for the driver, causing him to lose his foot-hold upon the dash-board, the impact throwing all three of them forward head foremost to the ground in front of the wheels.
One of the ladies who had grabbed the driver's arm fell on top of him and was run over. After the driver was ejected, an occupant of the omnibus tried to seize the reins, but in doing so he also fell under wagon and was run over. Both injured people were loaded on the streetcars and taken to Denver hospitals, but both died.
Mr. Dennis, the driver, was "suffering severely from injuries received, the tendons of his right shoulder being badly injured and a bad cut in the right arm."
Mr. Dennis feels the result of the disaster keenly, of course, but considers the accident an unavoidable one under the circumstances, and altogether owing to the bad condition of the road where the accident occurred. It is a county road and he thinks should have been attended to long ago by the proper authorities.
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. West northwest wind around 5 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. North wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Low around 52, with temperatures rising to around 55 overnight. West northwest wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 52°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 74°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 56°F
Thursday: Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers, 73°F
Thursday Night: Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy, 56°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny, 72°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 46°F
Saturday: Chance Rain Showers, 57°F
Saturday Night: Chance Rain Showers, 41°F
Sunday: Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers, 62°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 42°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny, 64°F
News About Golden - October 20, 2026
Morrison approves plan for 16 acres with new development firm
By Jane Reuter
Canyon Courier
You can almost hear the bulldozers idling in Morrison. While the town doesn’t yet own a parcel of promised prime real estate on its east side, it’s preparing now to develop it.
It approved a pre-development agreement Oct. 6 with Red Rocks Gateway... Read more...
On Tap Credit Union Wins Prestigious ‘Employee Experience Award’ at 2026 GoWest Credit Union Association MAXX Awards Event
Business Wire
GOLDEN, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Tap Credit Union has been honored with the Employee Experience Award at the 2026 GoWest Credit Union Association MAXX Awards, held at the Gaylord Rockies Resort in Denver on October 9, with over a thousand credit union professionals in attendance. The GoWest Credit Union Association’s MAXX Awards celebrate credit unions across a six-state region driving meaningful change, supporting local communities, and elevating the broader credit union movement... Read more...
Mines Museum of Earth Science event makes science spooky
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Not many Halloween events send trick-or-treaters home with geodes, but the Mines Museum of Earth Science’s annual Spooktacular is one of them... Read more...
15-year-old boy missing from Golden neighborhood
By Katie Langford
Denver Post
A 15-year-old boy is missing after he was last seen in a Golden neighborhood more than a week ago, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said... Read more...
CoorsTek moves headquarters back to original Golden site
By Jessica Alvarado Gamez
Denver Post
CoorsTek has moved its headquarters back to its Golden site, where the technical ceramics manufacturer began operations in 1910.
The company and AC Development, the Coors family’s development firm, moved this month to The Pottery, a new 188,600-square-foot office building at 800 Ford St... Read more...
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Sponsors:
($100/month or $1,175/year)
Buffalo Rose, Buglet Battery, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Earth Sweet Boutique, and Colorado Railroad Museum
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $575/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, Unite Fitness, and Joy Brandt
Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $285/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, in memory of Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Forrest Jones, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, The Golden Hotel, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Steve & M.L. Richardson, Jeremy & Stephanie Keller, AC Development, Golden PT & Pilates, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Mary Eiberger, and Jonathan Landman & Bonnie Vangilder
Members:
($10-24.99/month or $115/yr)
Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, Richard Caldwell, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, Wendy Weiman, Marge Frueh, Edgar Walker, Bivy Beer Bar, Nancy Cooper, Jane & Mike Templeton, Vicki Greivel, Kim McDonough, Carie Chimbel, Peggy Brochtrup, Cindy & Matt Finley, Kelly Fry, Esther Kettering, Tom & Susan Roberts, Vicki Greivel, GoGood Golden, Sandra Dallas, Nanette Johnson, and Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch
Followers:
($5-9.99/month or $55/year)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way, Chris Toney, Alicia Zimmerman, Tamara Feucht, Golden Brokers, Diane Tiberi, Cathy Larocca, Dave Cole, and Rachael Kenney-Reid
