Garrison Garden Paseo Opens in Arvada

Mile High CRE | November 4, 2024

The City of Arvada opened its newest park, the Garrison Garden Paseo on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in partnership with the Arvada Urban Renewal Authority (AURA). The new linear park — or paseo — is located between 57th Avenue to the south and Ralston Road to the north. The newly designed walkway adds a gentler slope to the existing corridor to make the space more accessible for all users. The Paseo creates better, safer connections for residents with transit, grocery and other amenities along Ralston Road, including Ralston Central Park, the Ralston Creek Trail and many new restaurants and shops that are planned in the area over the next several years. 

“Before this became the Garrison Garden Paso, this area was really quite narrow, Maureen Phair, director of AURA, says. “There was one path that came straight down, with no curves so that if you were walking or biking it was not an easy area to navigate. If you were riding down, it was steep and if you were walking up, it was a slow haul. There was no landscaping and no lighting so sometimes it could be a little scary. About five years ago the AURA board, during a retreat, was talking about all of the lovely amenities that we were building off of Ralston Road including the Ralston Central Park, the Ralston Creek Trail, and all of the new restaurants including the new beer garden which will open up next spring,” she says. “If you live in the neighborhood south of the new Garrison Garden Paso, it was very hard for you to get to all of the new Arvada amenities. You either had to come down an unwelcoming path or you went through the Walmart parking lot.

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