Getting your player ready...
With temperatures in the metro area forecast to be in the 90s this week, here are three local swim beaches where you can cool off (if you don’t mind crowds with the same goal in mind):
- The swim beach at Chatfield State Park, which was closed last year for construction, reopened this year as usual on Memorial Day. It’s open sunrise to sundown.
- The swim beach at Lakewood’s Bear Creek Lake State Park is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- The swim area at Cherry Creek State Park, which closed on July 9 because of higher than allowable E. coli bacteria levels, reopened on Sunday. “These closures are not a common occurrence,” park manager Jason Trujillo said in a news release, “but can be caused by fecal waste from wildlife, run-off from urban areas or excessive run-off from rain, which we have had a lot of lately.”
