Download or read book Exploring Denver Mountain Parks- a Guide to 22 Historic Getaways written by Mike Butler and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1912 the city of Denver has owned parks in the mountains west of the city limits. Today there are 22 developed parks and 24 conservation parks comprising 14,141 acres in the Denver Mountain Parks system, from Genesee to Red Rocks to Echo Lake. This guide helps visitors find the parks, provides historic features of each park, and includes location maps and lists of activities for each park.