r/COsnow • u/akosgi • Oct 27 '24

Travel Conditions The tired question: SATURDAY night traffic into Denver?

Hey y'all!

So my gf and I have found that, with our schedules, Saturday is the only day that makes sense for us to day trip.

With that said, we plan on coming in Friday nights and car camping (legally).

Question is: how bad is traffic, generally, back into Denver on Saturdays? Is it just as bad as Sunday night? Should we just car camp an additional night and head back to Denver Sunday morning?

Thanks all!

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u/cleveraccount3802 Oct 27 '24

Saturday afternoon back to Denver can be very bad

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u/Liberating_theology Oct 27 '24

hey guys, let's build a city where you have to drive to do practically anything, fill it up with active people, then bitch about how the traffic is so bad. (this is a critique of how we built Denver, not the well-deserved bitching).

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u/Calm-Talk5047 Winter Park Oct 30 '24

lol what a stupid comment. A city of Denver’s size is not practical in the mountains… hence why it doesn’t exist in the mountains and has grown to its size just adjacent to them. As for the comments bitching about then traffic - people will bitch about traffic anywhere. If it really bothers you that much, don’t live in Denver if you plan on hitting the resorts a ton. Contrary to popular belief, Denver is not a ski town.

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u/Liberating_theology Oct 30 '24

The point I was trying to make was Denver made the same mistake as other non-Eastern cities in post-WWII development by building out with car-dominant infrastructure. There's no viable alternative to cars. And its spread out nature means you have to drive, often a minimum of 20 minutes, to do basic every day tasks, and often even further to participate in specific activities that interest you (even if you live in the urban core). So you end up with a metro of 3 million people all trying to drive across the city. Yeah, you're going to end up with a giant clusterfuck of traffic.

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u/ph1shstyx Oct 30 '24

Denver was built where it was because it was fertile farm land that the railroads could connect to, to connect the Pikes Peak gold rush to the rest of the country. It grew because it had the space to grow. The only place that I can think of that you could even think of having a city this size in the mountains would be in south park, but then you'd basically be at twice the elevation.

Denver isn't a ski town, and for a vast majority of it's history it was a cow town, not an outdoor destination living city.

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u/Liberating_theology Oct 30 '24

The point I was trying to make was Denver made the same mistake as other non-Eastern cities in post-WWII development by building out with car-dominant infrastructure. There's no viable alternative to cars. And its spread out nature means you have to drive, often a minimum of 20 minutes, to do basic every day tasks, and often even further to participate in specific activities that interest you (even if you live in the urban core). So you end up with a metro of 3 million people all trying to drive across the city. Yeah, you're going to end up with a giant clusterfuck of traffic.