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Golden is a home rule city that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. [1] [6] The city population was 20,399 at the 2020 United States Census. [4] Golden lies along Clear Creek at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
Intersection of SH 93, SH 58 and US 6 in Golden as seen from Mount Zion. SH 93 runs 18.8 miles (30.3 km), starting at its southern junction with US 6 and SH 58 at the entrance to Clear Creek Canyon in Golden. It runs north, just east of the mountains, ending at a junction with SH 119 in central Boulder.
SH 470 begins at US 6 in Golden and heads south interchanging Interstate 70 and then US 285 outside Morrison. After leaving Morrison, it then heads east passing by Littleton and through Highlands Ranch before interchanging Interstate 25 in Lone Tree, where the freeway continues as a tollway and where the state highway designation ends.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.As of the 2020 census, the population was 582,910, [1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Colorado.
State Highway 119 (SH 119) is a 63.7-mile-long (102.5 km) state highway in north central Colorado.It extends in a southwest to northeast direction, from a junction with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Clear Creek Canyon between Golden and Idaho Springs to a junction with Interstate 25 (I-25) east of Longmont.
US 6/SH 93 in Golden: I-70 in Wheat Ridge: c. 1923: current Until 1953, continued west via Golden Gate Canyon Road and SH 46 to SH 119 SH 59: 173.30: 278.90 US 40/US 287 at Kit Carson: US 138 in Sedgwick: c. 1923: current Until 1953, continued north to Nebraska and south to Oklahoma SH 60: 19.99: 32.17 US 287 in Campion
In 1955, Jefferson County announced plans for a four-lane freeway between US 6 in Golden and the Valley Highway in Denver, approximately following West 44th Avenue from Golden to Mount Olivet Cemetery and West 48th Avenue to the Valley Highway, [4] which the Golden Chamber of Commerce endorsed as beneficial to the city's economy and traffic conditions. [5]
It parallels I-70, mostly as a frontage road, until the intersection with former State Highway 26 (SH 26) to the south of Golden [2] [3] US 40 westbound concurrent with I-70 BL and US 287 on Colfax Avenue in Denver. Beginning in Golden, US 40 becomes Colfax Avenue, the main east–west thoroughfare through the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area ...