Celebrate City Park’s latest face-lift and its 129-year anniversary during City Park Week from May 31 to June 4. Among the events:
Splish, splash, jazz
6-8 p.m. May 31
The fountain lights up.
City Park Jazz provides the soundtrack when civic dignitaries throw the switch that illuminates the Darlington Electric Fountain. The H2Odyssey interactive fountain also will be turned on.
A mile high and branching out
11 a.m. June 2
Pining for knowledge.
Mayor John Hickenlooper and other civic leaders unveil a new 5,280 marker on the west side of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the latest elevation marker on the Mile High Loop. Followed by an informative “tree walk” featuring some of the park’s varied tree species. Led by city forestry superintendent Michael Swanson and horticulturist James Klett.
Wing over Denver
4:30 p.m. June 4:
Avian art.
Denver’s newest piece of public art, Patrick Marold’s “Avian Front,” will be unveiled at the southwest corner of City Park, near the Denver Zoo. The sculpture, inspired by the micro-architecture of a bird feather, is 400 feet long, about 10 feet high, and incorporates more than 15,000 feet of salvaged steel pipe.
A big scoop of the 1880s
9 p.m. June 4
All’s fair.
Ice-cream social (free), Denver Municipal Band concert, and county-fair fundraiser for the City Park Alliance for District 8. People are asked to wear 1880s-era costumes to mark the park’s birthday.
