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Cheeseman Park sits atop a hill that once hosted Denver’s first cemetery. The grounds came back to life in 1898 as a park named for Denver water tycoon Walter Scott Cheesman. A formal park, it is crowned by a Colorado Yule Marble Pavilion with its splendid view of the Front Range of the Rockies. Bodies still accidentally exhumed here continue to haunt the grounds. (Yule is a type of marble.)
Courtesy Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel
Image: The hilltop Cheesman Memorial crowns Cheesman Park. Credit: Tom Noel Collection