Trails Information

The Town of Parker is committed to providing a variety of recreational opportunities. In order to provide bicycle riders, walkers, joggers and equestrians with safe and enjoyable routes, the Town maintains approximately 12 miles of concrete paved, multi-use trails throughout the Town.

Cherry Creek Trail - This trail, which is approximately 8 miles long, is the most significant trail resource in the Town, and extends from the Norton Farms Open Space in the north to Stroh Ranch Park in the south. It includes an 10-foot wide concrete pedestrian/bicycle path and an adjacent unpaved equestrian trail. Trailheads with parking, restrooms and picnic areas are located along the Cherry Creek Trail at East Bank Park, Bar Triple C Park, and Cottonwood Community Park. Over the next several years, this trial will be extended to Cherry Creek State Park to the north and to Castlewood Canyon State Park to the south.

Sulphur Gulch Trail - This trail, which is approximately 4 miles long, connects to the Cherry Creek Trail within Bar Triple C Park and extends east with an undercrossing of Parker Road and continuing along the south side of Mainstreet through the Town. An 8-foot wide concrete path connects several Town parks such as Bar Triple C, O'Brien Park and Town Hall Park. Several community trails are accessible from the Sulphur Gulch Trail including Tallman Gulch Trail, located within the Rowley Downs Subdivision, and various trails located within the Canterberry Crossing community.

Baldwin Gulch Trail – Baldwin Gulch Trail follows an intermittent waterway of the same name from  Lincoln Avenue (between Parker Road and Pine Drive) to its current endpoint at Twenty Mile Road. An underpass allows trail users to safely cross beneath Parker Road at E. Ponderosa Drive. Baldwin Gulch Trail will eventually connect to the Cherry Creek Trail near the east side of the Challenger Park Estates subdivision. A pedestrian bridge will be built as part of the Pine Lane extension in 2007. There is trailhead parking along the trail at Twenty Mile Road. 

Newlin Gulch Trail – Newlin Gulch connects the commercial development at Lincoln Avenue and Jordan Road to the Cherry Creek Trail. Pick up the trail behind the Stonegate King Soopers along Recreation Drive and connect to the Cherry Creek Trail behind the Parker Recreation Center. An underpass under Lincoln Avenue is planned for 2007/2008. This cooperative project with Douglas County will connect Newlin Gulch Trail to the County’s underpass at Jordan Road and to the neighborhood trails within Stonegate.

Additional public and private trails are being constructed each year, with the goal of providing connections between homes, schools, parks, open space, employment and commercial centers and other trail and transportation facilities.

Tallman Gulch Trail - Tallman Gulch Trail extends from the Idyllwilde community in the southeast corner of town, north past Iron Horse Elementary School where it connects to the Sulphur Gulch Trail at Stonehenge Way in the Rowley Downs subdivision. Highlights of the trail include Tallman Meadow Park and the Slemmer Barn historic site, both of which offer parking and picnic facilities. While the majority of Tallman Gulch Trail is an 8-foot wide concrete path, there are several sections which are dirt or other non-paved surfaces. An interconnected network of dirt trails winds around a large open space area at the southeastern terminus of the trail. There is currently a short unfinished section of trail between the Idyllwilde and Hidden River subdivisions. Tallman Gulch trail is approximately three miles long. 

Click here for information on the proposed Norton Trailhead.

We hope you enjoy these trails. Please be courteous to all trail users. For more information, or to request a copy of the Town's trails map, call Parker Town Hall at 303.841.0353.