Denver Parks Book Club at Grant Frontier Park

2300 S. Platte River Drive,Denver CO 80223

12 June, 2022

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Join us for the 1st meeting of the Denver Parks Book Club, featuring great books of the West, & held at some of Denver Parks' hidden gems. The Rocky Mountain Land Library is excited to announce a new ongoing book club, where the places we meet will also have their own stories to tell. We’ve gathered some of our favorite books on nature and the West for the club to read and discuss. Our book club discussions will be held at some of the lesser-known City Parks across Denver. Throughout the book club series, we will be discovering hidden surprises along the way; parks that have stories to add to the books we’ll be reading. There will also be an underlining theme to all of the Denver Parks Book Club discussions: our basic human need for parks and open space. With each session we’ll take a moment to explore the history of the park and neighborhoods where we meet. Grant Frontier Park: Butcher’s Crossing, a classic novel of the West, written by John Williams (who coincidentally taught at the nearby University of Denver for over thirty years). Grant Frontier Park is the site of the first gold-panning of Denver’s South Platte River, an evocative place to talk about a book that is all about history’s blind rush for paradise on earth. The Denver Parks Book Club discussions are free, but space is limited. Be sure to register at the links above. You can sign up for all the books, or just one! All the discussions will be outdoors, and we’ll be sending more information to everyone registered. The Book Club’s Sunday meetings will get underway at 11am and conclude at 1pm, with plenty of time for everyone to explore and appreciate our host city park. Chris Englert’s book Discovering Denver Parks was published in 2020. It quickly became one of the Land Library’s favorite pandemic books, inspiring the Denver Parks Book Club series. We highly recommend Chris’s book for anyone who wants to explore Denver’s 165 city and mountain parks.