The litter left behind after a typical night of frolicking is voluminous and varied: cannabis containers, hypodermic needles, underwear, bras, used condoms, fast-food packaging, cigarette butts, bu…
A sign is vandalized at a scenic overlook on Lookout Mountain. Officials are considering closing the road at night. Robberies, felony assaults, overdose deaths, stolen vehicles, sex assaults, pass-outs behind the wheel, minors in possession, suicides — these are among the calls law enforcement responded to last year alone on Lookout Mountain Road, west of Golden.
That sundown to sun-up restriction already exists on parking at the numerous pull-offs and turnouts that dot Lookout Mountain Road, which winds through Jefferson County’s 792-acreand Denver’s Lookout Mountain Park. But the multiple signs warning against overnight parking are dutifully ignored — or defaced — by the throngs that party along the road’s hairpin turns.
“Based on the number of hard alcohol bottles I’m finding, I’m surprised more people aren’t running into walls,” she said. “People are drinking hard up on the mountain.” Primozich found bullets in his yard and recounted multiple instances where he reported gunfire originating from the scenic overlook behind his home.
It’s not as simple as bumping up patrols on the road, he said. The sheriff’s office has only five cars on patrol in the northern part of the county and can’t spare an officer to patrol Lookout Mountain Road full time. The crowds of partiers just keep coming, he said, filling up a turnout soon after it’s cleared.Anonymized cellphone data collected by Denver Mountain Parks showed that in 2022, more than 180,000 vehicles used the road at night.
“When they close down that road with barricades now, the partiers get forced back into the neighborhood,” Webster said.This wouldn’t be the first time a road that goes through public parks is closed to traffic, Bonnell said. She cited the closure of Alameda Parkway at Dinosaur Ridge and the closure of the road through Matthews/Winters Park, which is done “to protect the rare paleontological resources on site.
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