The new First Creek at DEN Open Space — as the new park is being called — is the biggest park that City and County of Denver manages, beating out the 320-acre City Park just east of downtown Denver.
Scott Gilmore used to sneak into Rocky Mountain National Arsenal back when it was one of the most polluted patches of land in the country. He navigated barbed wire and warning signs in the 1980s to enter the 17,000-acre Superfund site and snap photographs of the bald eagles and hawks roosting there.
Gilmore has a full-circle perspective when he looks at the refuge’s evolution. A former wildlife photographer and wildlife biologist with a degree from Colorado State University, he’s now the deputy executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation. At 58 years old, he’s spent his adult life connecting and protecting public lands.
An overhead view of Denver Parks & Recreation’s newly managed acreage at Denver International Airport. The new, red areas in January joined the existing green areas along and around DIA’s Peña Boulevard. “Open space is so important for our wellbeing to recharge, exercise and experience the environmental benefits,” said Stacie Gilmore, City Councilwoman District 11, and Gilmore’s wife, in a statement. She, too, is a wildlife biologist committed to bringing people of color and kids from low-income families into the outdoors world.
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