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Detour Alert: Big Dry Creek Trail is detoured near City Park between Armed Forces Tribute Garden and the Westin through summer 2025 for your safety. Crews are installing new stormwater infrastructure, drainage ponds, and are restoring the banks of Big Dry Creek. The closure will help crews complete the project as quickly as feasible.
Please plan ahead and use alternate trails and routes. If you do travel through the area, use caution, follow the signage and directions from construction crews, and do not enter the construction areas.
Construction activities and heavy equipment will be re-shaping the area south of the Sheridan Green neighborhood for two new stormwater ponds. Crews will also remove the existing concrete channel and vault to install a new outfall pipe to the creek. This work is expected to last through August.
Once this work is complete, we will remove the retention pond just upstream near the Westin Hotel. This will help us realign Big Dry Creek to its native path. When complete, a new 10-foot-wide concrete trail with a 4-foot soft path side will be installed through this area.
The Big Dry Creek Trail will continue to have intermittent closures through the summer. For safety, pedestrians and cyclists must use the posted detour around the construction area. Detour and information signs will be posted on the trail with advanced warning of the closure.
Thank you for your patience as we complete improvements to City Park Pond and Big Dry Creek.
The City of Westminster is teaming up with the Mile High Flood District to improve Big Dry Creek’s water quality and flood management capabilities through City Park.
As crews prepare the work sites at City Park and near Big Dry Creek, tree removal has been completed. This project aims to build and support a healthy and thriving habitat for our native plants and animals. The first step is to remove the noxious and invasive tree species. Alive and dead trees will strategically remain for future habitat restoration and nesting. This project will plant and establish 425 trees, hundreds of willow whips, and thousands of native shrubs and plugs, build a wetland area, establish pollinator corridors, and install educational facilities. We ask for your patience as we work through these improvements to create these amenities for our citizens and wildlife.
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The City of Westminster is teaming up with the Mile High Flood District to improve Big Dry Creek’s water quality and flood management capabilities, and make it more resilient to intense storm runoff events. Together, we are repairing and stabilizing streambanks from 112th Avenue to Wadsworth Boulevard. This project will address Big Dry Creek’s stream instability, flood management, and maintenance needs. Years of urban runoff has led to steep, unsafe streambanks. This degradation is also approaching sewer pipes and trails, which need to be protected from further damage. Mitigating these risks will allow our community to continue safely enjoying activities along the Big Dry Creek for years to come.
This project will address multiple project areas along the Big Dry Creek and the timeline for each area is below.
This project aims to build and support a healthy and thriving habitat for our native plants and animals. The first step is to remove the noxious and invasive tree species. Alive and dead trees will strategically remain for future habitat restoration and nesting. This project will plant and establish 425 trees, hundreds of willow whips, and thousands of native shrubs and plugs, build a wetland area, establish pollinator corridors, and install educational facilities. We ask for your patience as we work through these improvements to create these amenities for our citizens and wildlife.
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(Under Construction)
This project will improve sections of Big Dry Creek between W. 104th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard near City Park and Highlands Creek near W. 104th Avenue. Reconnecting the natural floodplain along the Big Dry and Highlands creeks will result in the following benefits:
Timeline:
Detours: Trail detours will be noted once a construction plan is set.
Project map:
Big Dry Creek - City Park Segment Plan Map
Phase 1:
Wadsworth Boulevard to Westcliff Parkway Construction – Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Phase 2:
Project Photos
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After Construction:
Re-Vegetation:
(In Design)
The Big Dry Creek will be reconstructed between Sheridan Boulevard and 112th Avenue. The project will include trail extensions and realignments to improve flow and trail access.
Timeline: To be determined.
Send the project team an email at BDCRestoration@westminsterco.gov or give us a call at 303-706-3406.
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