Tuesday’s Traveler’s Tip- A Proper Tilt, to Your Map!
Our nation’s capitol, Washington D.C., was thorough in its city planning to provide no easy way out of or around town. The seeming chaotic, no rhyme or reason street plan of D.C. is exactly what the planners had in mind so that no one could attack or plunder any of our national treasures and get out of town easily.
When roaming around Denver, and navigating its Mile High Wonders, you may have noticed something similarly chaotic in its layout. Denver doesn’t quite have as lofty a reason as D.C. but we come upon the outcome honestly. Our City Planners simply did not plan for Denver to grow; certainly not as rapidly as it did and still does on a daily basis.
Because of this lack of planning, Denver Proper is in complete opposition to the rest of Metro Denver. This Tuesday’s Traveler’s Tip is to metaphorically and even literally…
Tilt Your Map
Throughout Greater Denver we have Numbered Avenues that run east to west. Inside Denver Proper we have Numbered Streets that run north to south. Many of these streets make a turn on the edge of downtown into the avenues that share their number and therefore merge for the greater expanse through town.
So, when you step into the hustle and bustle of the metro hip-ness of Downtown Denver, envision what you have learned of our Avenues to a perpendicular skew and start calling them Streets and you will always know how to get around the wildly unplanned we call Denver.
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