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1 WALKING ROUTE CLUES: 2TH AVENUE TOWN CENTER/ WESTERLY CREEK NEIGHBORHOODS Sapleon Scavenger Hun The clues below lead you o sies ha exemplify he many guiding principles of he Green Book. Look for he green balloons and be sure o ge your card samped a each locaion. Take a selfie o commemorae your visi! Turn in your compleed card o be enered in a drawing for exciing prizes. Enjoy your journey hrough he Green Book. CLUE The walls of his vibran building are designed wih brick ha pops in and ou o represen he exure of Braille. CLUE 2 This insallaion is he hear of he 2h Avenue pedesrian and reail disric. The granie and sandsone elemens of he founain environmen ell he journey of waer in Colorado s arid climae. CLUE 3 Nohing says communiy like a gahering place wih FREE admission for everyone. This space was designed by an archiec and Sapleon mom who incorporaed pleny of GREEN feaures o make bookworms of all ages feel righ a home. CLUE Jus like Old Towne Main Sree, you ll find all your needs are me here from medical, denal and massage o banking, dining and shopping. Why would you go anywhere else? CLUE The Swee William Marke, Farmers Marke and Movies on he Green all call his grassy pach heir home. Wha s no o love abou summer when you can hang ou here! CLUE This landmark provided pilos wih guidance for decades and serves as a reminder of Sapleon s roos CLUE 7 Hos o soccer games, fesivals, a world-class recreaion cener and ineracive playground, his 0-acre fun zone is Denver s hird larges park. Take a momen o breahe in he view from he swings, slide or monkey bars while you re here. CLUE I have my EYE on you. The large empy space wihin his sculpure allows he viewer o observe changes in he immediae environmen as you move along he sculpure. Fabricaed from recycled sone and seel, his piece of public ar speaks o Sapleon s ransformaion from an airpor o a neighborhood. CLUE Named afer a naural creek ha meanders hrough he neighborhood, his building originally housed Sapleon s firs wo schools. As he communiy grew, so did he school. I s now one of he larges in DPS. CLUE This eas/wes-oriened park sreches he lengh of Sapleon, connecing various neighborhoods along he way. Sop o skae, climb, swing and dig in he sand as you follow he pah back o Fred Thomas Park. CLUE Gardening and susainabiliy go handin-hand. Sop o admire his gahering pach for all hose neighbors sporing green humbs. CLUE 2 Inenionally locaed wihin walking disance of schools, ciy bus roues, parks and shopping, hese one-, wo- and hree-bedroom aparmens serve residens who earn beween 30 and 0 percen of he area median income. Answer : Anchor Cener for Blind Children Locaion: 20 Roslyn Sree Answer 2: Founders Founain Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue a Roslyn Sree Answer 3: Sam Gary Library Locaion: 2 Roslyn Sree Answer : 2h Avenue Town Cener Businesses and Medical Offices Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue a Noodles and Company Answer : Founder s Green Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue beween Roslyn Sree and Syracuse Sree Answer : Conrol Tower Locaion: MLK Boulevard a Uina Sree Answer 7: Cenral Park Locaion: MLK Boulevard a Xenia Sree Answer : The Eye and he Horizon Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue a Xenia Sree Answer : Weserly Creek Elemenary Locaion: 00 Eas 2h Avenue Answer : Greenway Park Pah Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue a Xanhia Sree Answer : Communiy Garden Locaion: Eas 23rd Avenue a Spruce Way Answer 2: Mercy Housing s Parkside Aparmens Locaion: Eas 23rd Avenue a Syracuse Sree

2 N 0 on un e l p a S venger H Sca 3 2 (BIKE) 3 2 (BIKE) (BIKE) Kick off & finish for all huns Walking Roue: 2h Avenue Town Cener/ Weserly Creek Neighborhoods (BIKE) Walking Roue: Easbridge/ Biking Roue: Easbridge/ Driving Roue: Norhfield/ Conservaory Green Neighborhoods

3 WALKING/BIKING ROUTE CLUES: EASTBRIDGE/BLUFF LAKE NEIGHBORHOODS Sapleon Scavenger Hun The clues below lead you o sies ha exemplify he many guiding principles of he Green Book Look for he green balloons and be sure o ge your card samped a each locaion. Take a selfie o commemorae your visi! Turn in your compleed card o be enered in a drawing for exciing prizes. Enjoy your journey hrough he Green Book. CLUE Inves some swea equiy and receive he payoff of looking and feeling grea. The larges of Denver s many faciliies, his one also boass he mos amazing views. CLUE 2 (biking only): A healhy and environmenally friendly way o commue o work, school and play is made more convenien by hese handy sorage opions. CLUE 3 Swallows, snakes and salamanders all coexis alongside his body of waer ha serves as a naural waer filraion sysem, cleaning sorm waer runoff, feeding he landscape and creaing a healhy naural habia. Many of he neighborhood parks serve his same purpose, filering he waer hrough sand and special pipes before sending i on is way. CLUE I s no safe o drink, bu his reclaimed waer source provides pleny of environmenal benefis. Think purple pipe! CLUE This high-qualiy, eco-friendly, four-sory residenial communiy offers 2 houghfully planned aparmens locaed near employmen, shopping services, parks and recreaion. Fify percen of he unis are reserved o assis families ransiioning from homelessness. CLUE This -mile public greenway connecs he High Line Canal in Aurora wih he Souh Plae River Greenway in Commerce Ciy. Along he way, i passes hrough norheas Denver and Sapleon. CLUE 7 If paience is a virue, hen Easbridge residens ge a gold sar. Progress is coming o his much-anicipaed cener of commerce. CLUE Take ime o explore his naure cener, jus minues away from urban living. Roas some marshmallows and si around he fire while learning abou he animals and ecosysems of his neighborhood gem. From his sign you can see Denver and he Fron Range, and winess a specacular view of he 23-acre refuge park. CLUE Named for a well-educaed English explorer, auhor and nauralis, his dynamic building anchors he Bluff Lake Neighborhood and feaures an immersion program for sudens new o he counry. CLUE (biking only): Naural grasses were reinroduced where he buffalo once roamed. Today you ll find bike riding families, dog walkers and joggers on hese pahs insead of he bison in his naural habia-urned-park ha connecs Sapleon o he neighborhoods of Eas Monclair and Norhwes Aurora. CLUE (biking only): Swallows, snakes and salamanders all coexis alongside his body of waer ha serves as a naural waer filraion sysem, cleaning sorm waer runoff, feeding he landscape and creaing a healhy naural habia. Many of he neighborhood parks serve his same purpose, filering he waer hrough sand and special pipes before sending i on is way. This park becomes an oudoor classroom jus seps from Weserly Creek and Bill Robers Elemenary Schools, where sudens can sudy he habias for aquaic, avian and erresrial species. The park includes a ba house near one of he wo bridges in his area. CLUE 2 (biking only): This ar insallaion is composed of earhcas vessels on heir sides represening he delicae balance beween human ineracion and naure. Or, hey could be alien pods. CLUE 3 : Saplesone (chunks of crushed recycled runway) form he banks of Weserly Creek under he bridge along he primary eas/wes arerial roadway a Sapleon. Answer : Cenral Park Rec Cener LEED plainum Locaion: MLK Boulevard Answer 2: Bike-shaped bike rack a Cenral Park Playground Locaion: MLK Boulevard a Xenia Sree Answer 3: Weserly Creek flow pah. Locaion: Bridge on Weserly Creek pah Norh of MLK Blvd Answer : Recycled waer sign Locaion: Dayon Sree a Eas rd Avenue Answer : Mercy Housing s Bluff Lake Aparmens Locaion: 2 Eas 3s Avenue Answer : Sand Creek Regional Greenway Locaion: Havana Sree a Florence Way Answer 7: Shiny Happy Carwash, Denis & Fuure Easbridge Town Cener Locaion: MLK Boulevard a Iola Sree Answer : Bluff Lake Fire Side Program / Bluff Lake Take Time/Toma Tiempo sign by The Pergola Locaion: 300 Havana Way Answer : Isabella Bird School Newcomer Program Locaion: 270 Norh Lima Sree Answer : Weserly Creek Park Locaion: Beeler Sree and Eas 23rd Avenue Answer : Weserly Creek Park and Trail Locaion: Eas 2h Avenue a Beeler Sree Answer 2: Chorus Cones locaed hroughou he Weserly Creek Park Locaion: Eas 2h Place a Beeler Sree Answer 3: Recycled Runway Weserly Creek by MLK bridge Locaion: Under Bridge a MLK Boulevard & Weserly Creek pah

4 N 0 on un e l p a S venger H Sca 3 2 (BIKE) 3 2 (BIKE) (BIKE) Kick off & finish for all huns Walking Roue: 2h Avenue Town Cener/ Weserly Creek Neighborhoods (BIKE) Walking Roue: Easbridge/ Biking Roue: Easbridge/ Driving Roue: Norhfield/ Conservaory Green Neighborhoods

DRIVING ROUTE CLUES: NORTHFIELD/CONSERVATORY GREEN NEIGHBORHOODS Sapleon Scavenger Hun The clues below lead you o sies ha exemplify he many guiding principles of he Green Book Look for he green

5 DRIVING ROUTE CLUES: NORTHFIELD/CONSERVATORY GREEN NEIGHBORHOODS Sapleon Scavenger Hun The clues below lead you o sies ha exemplify he many guiding principles of he Green Book Look for he green balloons and be sure o ge your card samped a each locaion. Take a selfie o commemorae your visi! Turn in your compleed card o be enered in a drawing for exciing prizes. Enjoy your journey hrough he Green Book. CLUE Living in Sapleon means being well conneced. Grab he bus o DIA, jump on ligh rail or cach a rain o Denver s Union Saion from his in-progress ransporaion hub. CLUE 2 One of Sapleon s firs corporae residens, his mechanical conracor was named one of Denver s Top Places o Work by he Denver Business Journal and also has one of Denver s mos successful apprenice raining programs. CLUE 3 Two wheels are beer han four. Jump on his pedesrian friendly connecor and bypass he highway o ge o Norhfield. CLUE A shining example of public-privaeparnership, he opening of his inerchange creaed new access o I-70, 270 and The Shops a Norhfield Boulevard. CLUE Oh give me a home, where he buffalo roam This former superfund sie now feaures several families of bison, en miles of hiking rails and a couple fishing ponds. CLUE Home of he Nigh Hawks, his brand new, sae-of-he-ar faciliy is urning heads and already has a waiing lis o ge inside. CLUE 7 A prairie-like environmen akes he landscape of his park back o is naive roos. Sraegically locaed a he nexus of Norh Cenral Park Boulevard s park sysem, his gem is he newes addiion o Sapleon s more han 20 acres of open space fun. CLUE Tired of shopping for oudoor gear or home goods? Head wes and ake a sroll around he pond in his park. The pond here is a grea waer feaure and also cleans he waer as i flows ino Sand Creek. CLUE Movies, shops and resaurans make his enerainmen mecca a hub of aciviy. Come for an hour, or spend all day. Then relax by hese founains wih a cup of frozen yogur o reward your effors. CLUE Double your pleasure; his building houses no one, bu wo burgeoning schools for kiddos in K-h grades. The lis of Sapleon s innovaion keeps growing, wih his newes model for academic success. CLUE Sapleon s newes neighborhood is named for he plaza and green a is cener. A shade srucure, waer feaure and fire pi are sure o draw crowds on a warm summer nigh. Answer : Fuure Home of RTD Cenral Park Saion, which will include a commuer rail saion, bus ransfer faciliy and Park-n-Ride los Locaion: Eas 3h Avenue a Cenral Park Boulevard (Smih Road a Uina Sree) Answer 2: RK Mechanical Locaion: Eas 37h Avenue a Xanhia Sree Answer 3: Bike Pah Conneciviy Locaion: Eas 0h Avenue a Cenral Park Boulevard Answer : Cenral Park Bypass Locaion: I-70 a Cenral Park Boulevard Answer : Rocky Mounain Arsenal Naional Wildlife Refuge Locaion: Eas h Avenue a Havana Sree Answer : Norhfield High School Locaion: Eas h Avenue a Cenral Park Boulevard Answer 7: Prairie Meadows Park Locaion: Eas 0h Avenue a Trenon Sree Answer : Norhfield Pond Park Locaion: Eas 7h Avenue a Yosemie Sree Answer : Main Sree Founain/Shops a Norhfield Locaion: Eas h Avenue a Main Sree Answer : High Tech Elemenary/DSST Conservaory Green Locaion: Eas Soll Place Answer : Conservaory Green Plaza Locaion: Valenia Sree a Eas h Place

6 N 0 on un e l p a S venger H Sca 3 2 (BIKE) 3 2 (BIKE) (BIKE) Kick off & finish for all huns Walking Roue: 2h Avenue Town Cener/ Weserly Creek Neighborhoods (BIKE) Walking Roue: Easbridge/ Biking Roue: Easbridge/ Driving Roue: Norhfield/ Conservaory Green Neighborhoods

The Guiding Principles were creaed o ensure he Sapleon developmen included environmenal responsibiliy, social equiy, economic opporuniy and an inenional physical design.

7 The Guiding Principles were creaed o ensure he Sapleon developmen included environmenal responsibiliy, social equiy, economic opporuniy and an inenional physical design. Dig deeper ino he Green Book by maching each principle o is corresponding neighborhood landmark. WALKING ROUTE CLUES: 2TH AVENUE TOWN CENTER/WESTERLY CREEK NEIGHBORHOODS CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle 3: Provide qualiy neighborhood schools and lifelong raining and educaion opporuniies. CLUE 2 Physical Design; Ciy Sree Grid and Urban Developmen Paerns, Guiding Principle C-2: Exend he Ciy and Couny s parkway sysem ono he sie for srees of major image and characer. CLUE 3 Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Creae a communiy ha accommodaes a diversiy of people ages, incomes, races, occupaions and lifesyles and reinforces and enhances he culural, ehnic and racial diversiy of adjacen neighborhoods. CLUE Economic Opporuniy, Guiding Principle : Provide for a broad mix of land use ypes, densiies and prices o serve muliple markes, and creae economic and social diversiy. CLUE Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Space, Guiding Principle D-: Insure ha appropriae recreaion faciliies are provided on an equiable basis o mee communiy needs. CLUE Physical Design; Ciy Sree and Urban Developmen, Guiding Principle C-: Preserve srucures of hisoric significance. CLUE Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Space, Guiding Principle D-: Use naural feaures and he pre-exising environmen as a basis for he design of he park sysem. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle 3: Provide qualiy neighborhood schools and lifelong raining and educaion opporuniies. CLUE Physical Design, Ciy Sree Grid and Urban Developmen Paerns, Guiding Principle C-2: Exend he Ciy s parkway sysem ono he sie for srees of major change and characer. CLUE Physical Design; Ciy Sree Grid and Urban Developmen Paerns, Guiding Principle C-: Uilize a village concep in each neighborhood, which will incorporae muliple uses, ransi access, walk-o-work possibiliies, public services and appropriae public spaces. CLUE 2 Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Faciliae he developmen of affordable housing as well as aracion of middle and upper income families o he norheas area hrough provision of a broad mix of housing ypes, densiies and price ranges. CLUE 7 Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Spaces, Guiding Principle D-: In addiion o he prairie park, naural areas and sream corridors, he open space sysem should also provide a leas one new major urban park.

8 WALKING/BIKING ROUTE CLUES: EASTBRIDGE/BLUFF LAKE NEIGHBORHOODS CLUE Environmenal Responsibiliy, Guiding Principle : Suppor developmen of environmenal echnologies, producs and services as a significan componen of he sie s and he region s economic base & Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Spaces Guiding Principle D-: Insure ha appropriae recreaion faciliies are provided on an equiable basis o mee communiy needs. CLUE 2 Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Creae a communiy ha accommodaes a diversiy of people ages, income, races, occupaions and lifesyles and reinforces and enhances he culural, ehnic and racial diversiy of adjacen neighborhoods. & Physical Design; Transporaion Sysems and Corridors, Guiding Principle B-: Provide a coninuous bikeway sysem hroughou he sie connecing o he bikeway sysem described in he recenly adoped Bicycle Maser Plan and o he Aurora bikeway sysem. CLUE 3 Physical Design; Naural Sysems and Land Form, Guiding Principle A-: Use he pre-exising environmen for he basis of change. The sie s opography, drainage flows, sream corridors and hisoric channels will give shape, form and srucure o he basic sie plan. CLUE Environmenal Responsibiliy, Guiding Principle C: Minimize demand for resources (on-sie requiremens for waer, energy, maerials, ec.) and maximize opporuniies for on-sie supply of resources. A) eliminae he need B) reduce he use C) reuse resources D) recycle resources. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Faciliae he developmen of affordable housing as well as aracion of middle and upper income families o he norheas area hrough provision of a broad mix of housing ypes, densiies and price ranges. CLUE Physical Design; Transporaion Sysems and Corridors, Guiding Principle B-2: Esablish an inermodal faciliy on sie which will ulimaely be capable of serving ligh rail, heavy rail, bus, auo, ruck, bicycle and pedesrian raffic. CLUE 7 Economic Opporuniy, Guiding Principle 2: Insure public invesmen in infrasrucure, sie ameniies and insiuional suppor ha will arac privae invesmen and he presence of businesses, insiuions and residens. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle 3: Provide qualiy neighborhood schools and life-long raining and educaion opporuniies. & Environmenal Responsibiliy, Guiding Principle 3: Resore and enhance exising naural sysems o achieve opimal healh and viabiliy. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Creae a communiy ha accommodaes a diversiy of people ages, income, races, occupaions and lifesyles and reinforces and enhances he culural, ehnic and racial diversiy of adjacen neighborhoods. CLUE Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Space, Guiding Principle D-2: Connec he Sapleon open space sysem no only wih regional resources, bu also wih adjacen neighborhoods. CLUE Physical Design; Naural Sysems and Land Form, Guiding Principle A-: Use he pre-exising environmen for he basis of change. The sie s opography, drainage flows, sream corridors and hisoric channels will give shape, form and srucure o he basic sie plan. & Environmenal Responsibiliy, Guiding Principle : Promoe naural, economic and social sysems ha are diverse and durable. Seek design soluions and developmen opporuniies ha inegrae sysems o produce greaer efficiencies and benefis. CLUE 2 Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Benefi Sapleon and surrounding neighborhoods hrough he inegraion of services, public faciliies and ameniies. CLUE 3 Environmenal Responsibiliy, Guiding Principle 7: Include consideraion of poenial reuse of faciliies and improvemens over ime in sie, sysem and building designs. DRIVING ROUTE CLUES: NORTHFIELD/CONSERVATORY GREEN NEIGHBORHOODS CLUE Physical Design; Transporaion Sysems and Corridors, Guiding Principle B-2: Esablish an inermodal faciliy on sie which will ulimaely be capable of serving ligh rail, heavy rail, bus, auo, ruck, bicycle and pedesrian raffic. CLUE 2 Social Equiy, Guiding Principle 2: Creae opporuniies for significan minoriy paricipaion in he developmen process, employmen and residency. Creae opporuniies for small business paricipaion in he developmen process. & Social Equiy, Guiding Principle, Insure diversiy in he job base o provide employmen opporuniies for a wide range of socio-economic groups, and work wih adjacen communiies o develop workforce skills and enrepreneurial opporuniies for local residens. CLUE 3 Physical Design; Transporaion Sysems and Corridors, Guiding Principle B-: Provide a coninuous bikeway sysem hroughou he sie connecing o he bikeway sysem described in he recenly adoped Bicycle Maser Plan and o he Aurora bikeway sysem. CLUE Economic Opporuniy, Guiding Principle 2: Insure public invesmen in infrasrucure, sie ameniies and insiuional suppor ha will arac privae invesmen and he presence of businesses, insiuions and residens. & Physical Design; Transporaion Sysems and Corridors, Guiding Principle B-3: Clarify and exend he mile-bymile arerial sysem hrough he sie wherever possible. CLUE Physical Design; Parks, Recreaion and Open Space, Guiding Principle D-: Effecively define he ransiions from urban uses o less inensive uses such as open space and he Rocky Mounain Arsenal Naional Wildlife Area. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle 3: Provide qualiy neighborhood schools and lifelong raining and educaion opporuniies. CLUE 7 Physical Design; Naural Sysems & Landforms, Guiding Principle A: Use he pre-exising environmen for he basis of change. The sie s opography, drainage flows, sream corridors and hisoric channels will give shape, form and srucure o he basic sie plan. CLUE Physical Design; Naural Sysems and Land Forms, Guiding Principle A-: Achieve muliple benefis by using earh moving aciviies o creae necessary drainage basins and swales, improve habia, provide visual ameniy and recreaion opporuniy and improve soil and waer qualiy.] CLUE Economic Opporuniy, Guiding Principle 2: Insure public invesmen in infrasrucure, sie ameniies and insiuional suppor ha will arac privae invesmen and he presence of businesses, insiuions and residens. CLUE Social Equiy, Guiding Principle : Creae a communiy ha accommodaes a diversiy of people ages, income, races, occupaions and lifesyles and reinforces and enhances he culural, ehnic and racial diversiy of adjacen neighborhoods. CLUE Economic Opporuniy, Guiding Principle : Provide for a broad mix of land use ypes, densiies and prices o serve muliple markes, and creae economic and social diversiy.

Treasure every moment

Treasure every moment Treasure every momen Imagine fresh omaoes from he communiy garden. Blue Mounains views from a peaceful hillop park. Local markes and café cach-ups in a hriving own cenre conneced o Schofields rain saion.