Eastern Mojave Vegetation Arapahoe Street, Golden, Colorado  
 

Tom Schweich  

Home Page  North and South through Golden

Other articles:
• Social Trail (Arapahoe to N. Rubey):   at Arapahoe St;  

Path to N. Rubey Drive.

End of Street

Other articles:
• Field Notes:  22 Mar 2017;

Images:
- Myrtle Spurge on Arapahoe Street.
 

Euphorbia myrsinites “Myrtle Spurge” along Arapahoe Street.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   27 Feb 2017;  24 Feb 2019;

Images:
- "For Sale" van stored on street for months.

- 124 Arapahoe Street
 

More Images:
124 Arapahoe Street
This van stored for months on the street while it was "For Sale."

Other articles:
• 2nd Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 2nd Street

Images:
- Pickup truck that hasn't moved for a long time.
 

Disabled pickup truck on Arapahoe Street near 2nd Street.

Images:
- Trailer stored on street for at least 4 months.
 

Trailer stored on street for at least 5 months, from the beginning of the school year through February.

Images:
- Trailer stored on 3rd Street near Arapahoe Street.
 

Intersection: 3rd Street

Trailer stored on the street for months.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   27 Feb 2017;  29 Dec 2019;

Images:
- Car parked on curb; thought to be abandoned.

- Abandoned vehicle on Arapahoe Street.
 

More Images:
Another aboandoned car on Arapahoe Street.
Arapahoe Street, just above 4th; one car sat for a long time, then a second was parked on the curb across the street.

Other articles:
• 4th Street:   at Arapahoe;
• Field Notes:  Sunday, December 21st;

Images:
- Deer in Nightbird Gulch off 4th Street.
 

Intersection: 4th Street

Other articles:
• Alley:   at Arapahoe;
• Field Notes:   12 June 2012;  15 Mar 2021;   21 Apr 2021;   2 June 2021;   8 Feb 2022;   15 May 2023;   13 Feb 2024;   15 Mar 2024;

Images:
- After the first cut with the snow blower.

- That's enough snow-blowing for one day.
 

More Images:
Another spring snow! Old Power Pole New Power Pole Mud washing out of the alley. The sewer cleanout truck down at the gulch.
Alley after passage of the sewer cleanout truck. Alley after passage of the sewer cleanout truck. Muddy water on its way to Clear Creek from the alley. 19" of Snow on the Deck. Condition of the alley in June 2012.
Intersection: Alley

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   8 May 2022;   28 Apr 2023;  29 Apr 2023;   20 May 2023;

Images:
- Bastard Toadflax in my parkway.

- Frasera speciosa beginning to bloom in my parkway (4/28/2023)
 

My parkway turned into native plant beds.

More Images:
Last night, someone broke off an irrigation pipe, stuck the pipe on the support, and bent the support over. Bootprints of whoever vandalized my parkway sprinklers. Parkway on 20 May 2023.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:  15 Mar 2021;  21 May 2022;   4 Jul 2024;   8 Sep 2022;

Images:
- Broken-down construction equipment stored on Arapahoe Street from about a week.

- Snowy Arapahoe Street, after 24-26" of measured snow.
 

More Images:
Late spring snow storm brings down branches. Silver maple in July 2022. A branch fell out of our huge Silver Maple.
Broken-down construction equipment stored on Arapahoe Street for about a week.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:  20 Sep 2020;   18 Mar 2021;   20 Mar 2021;   28 Apr 2023;   20 May 2023;   28 May 2023;

Images:
- Parkway almost ready to plant.

- Parkway almost ready to plant.
 

Parkway to be planted with prairie.

More Images:
Parkway almost ready to plant. Parkway almost ready to plant. Clogged up storm drain at 5th and Arapahoe Parkway on the 1st Day of Spring 2021. The vault in the storm drain is full again.
Parkway at 5th and Arapahoe Streets, 20 May 2023 “Native Prairie Plants”

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   15 Jan 2022;

Images:
- Plugged storm drain at 5th and Arapahoe
 

Storm drain.

Other articles:
• 5th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 5th Street

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   15 Jan 2022;

Images:
- Uncleared snow and ice at 5th and Arapahoe.
 

Southeast corner of 5th and Arapahoe, a common problem place for clearance of ice and snow.

Other articles:
• Alley:   at Arapahoe;  

Alley between 5th and 6th.

Other articles:
• 6th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 6th Street
  End of Street


Other articles:
• 7th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 7th Street

Other articles:
• 8th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 8th Street
  Intersection: 9th Street

Other articles:
• 10th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 10th Street


  Arapahoe Street does not cross Clear Creek.

Other articles:
• 11th Street:   at Arapahoe;  


Intersection: 11th Street

Other articles:
• 12th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 12th Street

Other articles:
• 13th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 13th Street

Other articles:
• 14th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 14th Street


Other articles:
• 15th Street:   at Arapahoe;  


Intersection: 15th Street

Other articles:
• 16th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 16th Street

Other articles:
• 17th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 17th Street


Other articles:
• 18th Street:   at Arapahoe;  


Intersection: 18th Street

Other articles:
• 19th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 19th Street, west to Colorado Highway 93.
  Intersection: 20th Street
  Intersection: 21st Street
  Intersection: 22nd Street
  Intersection: 23rd Street

Other articles:
• 24th Street:   at Arapahoe;  

Intersection: 24th Street


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Date and time this article was prepared: 3/11/2026 7:47:01 PM