17 Facts About Golden Colorado

Golden Colorado is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Golden Colorado, having then sidetracked into servicing various close by mountain communities, continued to fall behind the pace set by the Denver railroad, and by 1870, officially lost the race to Cheyenne.

Golden Colorado became even more connected through mass transit, with two trolley lines extending to Denver, while the movie theater gradually took the place of the opera house for downtown entertainment.

The Coors Brewery had become the largest single-site brewery in the world, its porcelain subsidiary among the foremost of its kind, and Golden Colorado became home to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden Colorado, is a live theater which has performed there since 2001.

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Golden Colorado is home to the headquarters and brewery of Coors Beer.

Golden Colorado was where the beer company had its start, and it has kept its headquarters in the city ever since its founding in 1873.

Golden Colorado has to date generated three Major League Baseball players, four Olympic competitors and two Olympic medalists.

Golden was among the first municipally governed cities in Colorado and has one of the oldest continuously functioning governments in the state.

Main part of Golden Colorado is laid out upon a historic street grid system running on an approximately northwest–southeast axis, aligned with Clear Creek upon which the heart of the city was established.

Golden Colorado's streets are generally numbered on the east–west streets, and named on the north–south streets, and are named after pioneers, American Indian tribes and trees.

Outlying subdivisions of Golden Colorado consist of their own, often curvilinear street systems, with varying degrees of connection to the rest of the city.

Golden Colorado has several main thoroughfare street connections to the east which date to the Gold Rush times, including West 44th Avenue, West 32nd Avenue and South Golden Colorado Road.

Since its beginning, Golden has been at a crossroads of major Colorado thoroughfares.

Golden Colorado is part of the network of the Regional Transportation District which provides bus and light rail service throughout the Denver metropolitan area.

Closest airport to Golden Colorado is nearby Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, a general aviation air transport facility located in northeastern Jefferson County.

Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Golden include engineer and historian Edward L Berthoud, brewer Adolph Coors, photographer Gertrude Kasebier, and Gudy Gaskill, the driving force behind the creation of the Colorado Trail.