%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en Daniels Park http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/daniels-park <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Daniels Park</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/yongli" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">yongli</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2017-08-25T15:14:16-06:00" title="Friday, August 25, 2017 - 15:14" class="datetime">Fri, 08/25/2017 - 15:14</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/daniels-park" data-a2a-title="Daniels Park"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fdaniels-park&amp;title=Daniels%20Park"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>Daniels Park (8682 N Daniels Park Rd, Sedalia, CO 80135) is a unit of the <strong><a href="/article/denver-mountain-parks">Denver Mountain Parks</a></strong> system located in an area of grassy buttes and ravines just west of <strong>Castle Pines</strong> in <strong><a href="/article/douglas-county">Douglas County</a></strong>. First established with a thirty-eight-acre donation from Florence Martin in 1920 and expanded to 1,000 acres with another donation from Martin in 1937, the park is the only prairie park in the mountain parks system as well as the only mountain park in Douglas County. Best known for its <a href="/article/bison"><strong>bison</strong></a> herd, the park is also home to historic ranch structures, a picnic shelter designed by <a href="/article/jules-jacques-benois-benedict"><strong>Jules Jacques Benois Benedict</strong></a>, the site where <strong><a href="/article/kit-carson">Kit Carson</a></strong> supposedly made his last campfire, and the Tall Bull Memorial Grounds cultural area.</p> <h2>Early Years</h2> <p>The land that is now Daniels Park is bisected by a ridge known as Riley Hill, which runs roughly north-south to reach Wildcat Point at an elevation of 6,600 feet. Long before Daniels Park was established, the area’s prominence and clear views made it a popular rendezvous point and route for travelers. In the late 1850s or early 1860s, what is now Daniels Park Road along the ridge was already the path of one of Colorado’s first <strong>Territorial Roads</strong>. In 1868 noted trapper, scout, and army officer Christopher “Kit” Carson traveled south from <strong><a href="/article/denver">Denver</a></strong> over Riley Hill and supposedly made his last campfire at Wildcat Point; he died soon thereafter at <strong>Fort Lyon</strong>.</p> <h2>Martin Ranch and Mountain Park</h2> <p>When <strong><a href="/article/daniels-and-fisher-tower">Daniels and&nbsp;Fisher</a></strong> department store owner William Cooke Daniels and his wife, Cicely Banner Daniels, both died suddenly in 1918, they left ownership of the store to their friends Charles MacAllister Willcox, the store’s longtime president, and Florence Martin, an Australian socialite who was a close friend of Cicely Daniels. In 1919 Martin came to Denver and acquired a large ranch south of town—including Riley Hill and Wildcat Point—where she and her sister, Emily, could spend their summers.</p> <p>In 1920 Martin donated about thirty-eight acres of her ranch at Wildcat Point to the Denver Mountain Parks system, on whose advisory board her friend (and Daniels and Fisher co-owner) Charles Willcox served. Martin stipulated that the new park should be named in honor of William and Cicely Daniels. By 1922 the city built several campfire sites and a rustic stone shelter designed by Denver architect Jules Jacques Benois Benedict. In 1923 the Territorial Daughters added a memorial marking Kit Carson’s last campfire. Because of its great views of the <strong><a href="/article/front-range">Front Range</a></strong> stretching from <strong><a href="/article/pikes-peak">Pikes Peak</a></strong> to <strong><a href="/article/longs-peak">Longs Peak</a></strong>, the small park became a popular spot for Denver residents to enjoy picnics and watch the sunset.</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the early 1920s, Martin built her own house and other ranch facilities on a butte extending southwest from Riley Hill about a mile north of Wildcat Point. Closest to Riley Hill was the ranch manager’s area, with a two-story wood-frame house, a two-story chicken coop, and a dairy barn with a gambrel roof and tongue-and-groove wood siding. Farther out on the butte was the ranch foreman’s area, which also had a wood-frame house and chicken coop as well as a bunk house, horse barn, and two-story workshop. At the very end of the butte, with expansive views of the Front Range, sat Martin’s house and an octagonal wood-frame picnic pavilion.</p> <p>In 1937 a fire destroyed Martin’s ranch house. Instead of rebuilding, she donated 962 acres to Denver to expand Daniels Park to roughly 1,000 acres. The former ranch buildings became home to park maintenance workers and equipment. A year later, the enlarged park became home to Denver’s second bison herd after the existing herd at <strong><a href="/article/genesee-park">Genesee Park</a></strong> grew so large that it had to be split. About twenty bison were relocated to Daniels Park, where about 800 acres of parkland were set aside for them to roam.</p> <h2>Today</h2> <p>In the 1970s, Cheyenne tribal member Richard Tall Bull started to push for a place where Denver’s Native American community could come together for ceremonies and celebrations. He picked a seventy-acre site at the northern edge of Daniels Park, and in 1977 Denver agreed to grant exclusive use of the land—called the <strong>Tall Bull </strong>Memorial Grounds—to a consortium of local Indigenous groups later known as the Tall Bull Memorial Council. In 1997 Mayor <strong>Wellington Webb</strong> extended the agreement for another twenty-five years. For most of the year the Tall Bull Memorial Grounds is open only to Native Americans, but on Labor Day Weekend the Tall Bull Memorial Council hosts a powwow that is open to the public.</p> <p>Daniels Park was once in the middle of open plains, buttes, and ravines, but since the 1980s it has been abutted to the east by development in nearby Castle Pines. The park’s views west to the mountains, however, remain unimpeded. In 1995 the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today it forms part of a 12,000-acre open space that is bounded by Castle Pines on the east, Highlands Ranch on the north, and US 85 on the west and south. In addition to Daniels Park, the open space includes <strong>Highlands Ranch</strong> Backcountry Wilderness and <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/cherokee-ranch-and-castle"><strong>Cherokee Ranch</strong></a>.</p> <p>By the late 1990s, as nearby development resulted in more traffic in and around Daniels Park, Denver (which owns the park) and Douglas County (which maintains Daniels Park Road) started working together to implement a variety of park and road improvements. In 2006 Daniels Park received a <strong>State Historical Fund</strong> grant of more than $80,000 to restore the exterior of the historic Martin Ranch barn. In 2007 a master plan for the park was completed, and in 2008–9 Douglas County performed the first phase of improvements to Daniels Park Road. A new trail and trailhead opened in 2014, and construction of more trails, parking lots, and bison-viewing areas continued in 2015. The final round of improvements in the more than $3.5 million project—including paving and rerouting Daniels Park Road and building a trail parallel to the road—is slated for completion in 2017–18.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/encyclopedia-staff" hreflang="und">Encyclopedia Staff</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/denver-mountain-parks" hreflang="en">denver mountain parks</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/florence-martin" hreflang="en">Florence Martin</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/kit-carson" hreflang="en">kit carson</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/jules-jacques-benois-benedict" hreflang="en">Jules Jacques Benois Benedict</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/daniels-and-fisher" hreflang="en">Daniels and Fisher</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/william-cooke-daniels" hreflang="en">William Cooke Daniels</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/bison" hreflang="en">bison</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/tall-bull-memorial-grounds" hreflang="en">Tall Bull Memorial Grounds</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>Susan Consola Appleby, <em>Fading Past: The Story of Douglas County, Colorado</em> (Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press, 2001).</p> <p>Jessica Gibbs, <a href="https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/highlands-ranch-herald/stories/more-improvements-for-daniels-park-coming-in-august,248533/">“More Improvements for Daniels Park Coming in August,”</a> <em>Highlands Ranch Herald</em>, May 9, 2017.</p> <p><a href="https://www.douglas.co.us/documents/daniels-park-improvements-history.pdf">“A History of Daniels Park Improvements,”</a> Douglas County.</p> <p>Wendy Rex-Atzet, Sally L. White, and Erika D. Walker, <em>Denver Mountain Parks: 100 Years of the Magnificent Dream</em> (Silverthorne, CO: John Fielder Publishing, 2013).</p> <p>Maureen Van Norden, “Daniels Park,” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (October 15, 1994).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p><a href="https://www.douglas.co.us/dcoutdoors/parks/daniels-park/">“Daniels Park,”</a> Douglas County.</p> <p>Josephine Lowell Marr, <em>Douglas County: A Historical Journey</em> (Gunnison, CO: B&amp;B Printers, 1983).</p> <p>Wendy Rex-Atzet, <em>Denver’s Mountain Playground: The Denver Mountain Parks, the City Beautiful, and the Rise of Modern Wilderness Recreation in Colorado, 1900–1940</em> (PhD dissertation, University of Colorado–Boulder, 2011).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:14:16 +0000 yongli 2732 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org