Street System of Denver - Names of Major Denver Streets

Names of Major Denver Streets

• Alameda Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare at 300 south. It travels from near Red Rocks Park to Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora. The road disappears briefly in the Cherry Creek neighborhood as it is displaced by the namesake Cherry Creek. It is sometimes known as Alameda Parkway.
• Brighton Boulevard is named for Brighton, Colorado, and was the original route to that city, the Adams County seat. It roughly follows the South Platte River's path and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. It is also called Brighton Road in sections, and in Commerce City, north of Denver, there are sections in which Brighton Boulevard and Brighton Road both run separately, parallel to each other.
• Broadway was named by developer Henry C. Brown after New York City's Broadway. It is the demarcation between east and west street numbers in Denver.
• Bruce Randolph Avenue is equivalent to East 34th Avenue between Downing Street and Dahlia Street. It honors "Daddy" Bruce Randolph, a local community figure in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Colfax Avenue was named after the Speaker of the House in 1865, Indiana congressman Schuyler Colfax, in an attempt to win his support for Colorado's statehood. The name first appeared on maps in 1868.
• Colorado Boulevard is a major north-south thoroughfare at 4000 East.
• East Hale Parkway runs through the neighborhood of Hale and north of Rose Medical Center. It runs from Albion Street to Grape Street, and from 8th Avenue to 12th Avenue.
• Federal Boulevard is a major north-south thoroughfare which runs as a crosstown road through Denver. It travels from W Bowles Ave in Littleton, Colorado to W 120th Ave in Broomfield, Colorado.
• Lincoln Street runs parallel to Broadway, one block to the east. For 3.2 miles (5.1 km) between I-25 and 20th Avenue, Broadway carries only southbound traffic and Lincoln becomes a major thoroughfare, carrying four lanes of northbound traffic. It is distinct from Lincoln Avenue, a mostly east-west thoroughfare in the far south suburb of Highlands Ranch.
• Martin Luther King Boulevard is equivalent to East 32nd Avenue from Downing Street to Havana Street. It runs through several largely African American neighborhoods, including Clayton and Northeast Park Hill, and received this name in 1980.
• Montview Boulevard is the equivalent of East 20th Avenue east of Colorado Boulevard and was named for Denver's view of the Rocky Mountains.
• Morrison Road is named for the town of Morrison, Colorado. It originally began at West Colfax Avenue, and exists for only brief portions near the Platte River and between Knox Court and Sheridan Boulevard in west Denver before reappearing west of Wadsworth Boulevard on its journey to Morrison.
• Park Avenue/Park Avenue West is the equivalent of 23rd Street in downtown Denver. It runs from I-25 south-east through downtown. It maintains its diagonal heading through Uptown and the classic (N-S-E-W) grid, coming to an end at the three-way intersection with Colfax and Franklin.
• Santa Fe Drive follows the path of an old trail from Denver to Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was called the Santa Fe Trail, although it is not part of the more well-known Santa Fe Trail leading to Missouri.
• University Boulevard is a major north-south thoroughfare located at 2350 East, named for the University of Denver, which it runs through. While it doesn't exist north of 1st Avenue (its traffic separates into the York St./Josephine St. couplet) it is a major artery into Denver's far south suburbs.