How to get around amid “A Taste of Colorado”

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PUBLISHED: September 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM MDT | UPDATED: May 6, 2016 at 7:45 PM MDT

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Downtown Denver drivers will get a bitter taste of street closures and traffic leading up to A Taste of Colorado, which opens today at 11:30 a.m. in Civic Center.

The annual Labor Day weekend festival draws thousands of people for food, drink and entertainment.

Parking will be available throughout downtown, but officials with A Taste of Colorado are encouraging visitors to use light rail and RTD buses or travel by bicycle.

BikeDenver is offering free bicycle parking at two locations, in front of the Colorado History Museum at East 13th Avenue and Lincoln Street and on the northeast corner of Cherokee Street and West 14th Avenue.

All traffic lanes will open by 6 a.m. Tuesday.

What’s happening.

Annette Espinoza: 303-954-1655 or aespinoza@denverpost.com

Schedule of closures

The following street closures will take effect today at 6 a.m.:

Colfax Avenue, westbound between 15th and Lincoln streets.

15th Street, between West Colfax Avenue and Cleveland Place.

15th Street, Cleveland Place to Court Place, local access only.

At 3:30 p.m.:

Sherman Street will close between East 16th and East 17th avenues; a southbound lane will reopen at 7 p.m.

At 7 p.m.:

Lincoln Street, between East 13th Avenue and East 16th Avenue, will be closed.

East 14th Avenue, between Lincoln Street and Sherman Street, will be closed.

East Colfax Avenue, between Sherman and Lincoln streets, will be closed. Other streets surrounding Civic Center will be closed or reduced to a single lane of traffic.

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