Visitors Center: 5711 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
About the Tourism Board
Things to do
Attractions
Larkspur Highlands Nature SocietyWildlife & Zoo
A cedar blind at the marsh edge with viewing slots at kid height and adult height, plus a whiteboard where visitors log the morning's sightings — herons lead the standings.
9150 Indiana St, Arvada
Entertainment
A green half-block that hosts the Harvest Festival, summer concert series, and the February ice-lantern walk. Off-festival days it is simply the county's favorite picnic lawn.
7525 Grandview Ave, Arvada
Arts & Culture
The county's restored rail depot, complete with a caboose you can climb aboard and a model-rail diorama of Larkspur County circa 1925 that took one dedicated barber thirty years to build.
5595 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipEntertainment
First Fridays, May through October: forty vendor stalls, three food trucks, string lights, and a different local band each month in the plaza around The Ironworker.
7855 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Arts & Culture
Three floors of prairie stories: a homestead kitchen you can walk through, a working telegraph desk, and the county's beloved two-headed calf. The rooftop gallery frames the Front Range panorama.
7307 Grandview Ave, Arvada
Other
The front door to Larkspur County, staffed by volunteers who hand out trail maps, festival calendars, and restaurant tips with equal enthusiasm. Pick up the county passport booklet before you set out.
5711 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Arts & Culture
A former hardware store turned open studio where glassblowers, letterpress printers, and leatherworkers sell what they make on-site. Saturday demonstrations end with a make-your-own-souvenir bench.
5677 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Larkspur Highlands Nature SocietyEntertainment
A small stone amphitheater facing the Front Range, built by the CCC in 1938 and used for the Society's sunset talks and full-moon concerts. Seats sixty, plus infinite blanket room.
17555 W 84th Ave, Arvada
Entertainment
An 1898 opera house restored to its velvet-and-gaslight glory, now hosting chamber concerts, silent films with live organ, and the county spelling bee. Tours run whenever the ghost light is on.
5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Amusement & Theme Park
A 15-inch-gauge railroad that loops families past a miniature Larkspur County — tiny depot, tiny silos, tiny cows. Conductors blow the whistle at every crossing whether they need to or not.
7495 W 57th Ave, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipEntertainment
A 400-seat creekside bowl where the Partnership stages movie nights and the September bluegrass weekend. Bring a blanket; the cottonwoods provide the ceiling.
9600 W 64th Ave, Arvada
Arts & Culture
Two decommissioned grain silos re-rigged as playable instruments — one a giant reverberating drum, the other a wind harp that hums in the afternoon chinook. Bring mallets or borrow a pair.
7350 W 57th Ave, Arvada
Arts & Culture
The surviving annex of the Larkspur Flour Mill now houses a working gristmill demonstration, a bread-baking classroom, and a shop selling flour ground on the original stones.
5590 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Larkspur Highlands Nature SocietyArts & Culture
An 1890s fieldstone barn restored as the Society's classroom — star parties on the threshing floor, owl-pellet labs for school groups, and the annual seed swap each March.
17850 W 82nd Ave, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipArts & Culture
A community workshop in the old rail switchyard office — woodshop, welders, 3D printers, and a tool library. Open-house Saturdays let visitors try the laser cutter.
6420 Kipling St, Arvada
Public art
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipMei-Lin Trujillo
A steel archway pierced with the constellations visible over the county on harvest night, casting star patterns on the sidewalk under the afternoon sun.
9900 W 64th Ave, Arvada
Renata Solis
A three-story mural of a western meadowlark lifting off a fencepost, painted across the north wall of the old feed store. At golden hour the whole wall seems to catch fire.
5685 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipRalston Creek Mural Collective
A 200-foot mural following the flood line of Ralston Creek along a retaining wall, painted with pigments mixed from creek-bed clay by neighborhood volunteers.
8000 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipD. K. Okafor
A twelve-foot bronze of a foundry worker mid-pour, cast from melted-down radiators donated by district households. The plaza around him hosts the Night Market.
7650 Ralston Rd, Arvada
History & heritage
Larkspur County Historical Society1887
A white clapboard church raised in 1887 by settlers who hauled its bell 600 miles by wagon. Sunday services gave way to weddings, recitals, and the December carol sing.
5760 Teller St, Arvada
1896
Where the county's farmers organized, danced, and argued crop prices for ninety years. The maple dance floor, worn to a shine, still hosts a monthly barn dance.
7420 W 57th Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1891
The 1891 Queen Anne home of merchant family the Harlans, kept exactly as the last Miss Harlan left it in 1974 — pantry labels, parlor piano, and all. Docent tours on the hour.
7295 Grandview Ave, Arvada
1873
A granite marker at the site of the 1873 iron truss bridge that gave the district its name — the first all-weather crossing of Ralston Creek and the reason the town grew here at all.
7300 Grandview Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1878
The stone foundation and wheel pit of the 1878 mill that ground the county's wheat for fifty years, stabilized as an open-air exhibit with interpretive panels and the original millstone.
5580 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1884
Four identical 1884 stone cottages built for mill and quarry workers, one furnished to period and open for tours. Laundry still dries on the line, strictly for atmosphere.
5650 Webster St, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1904
The 1904 firehouse whose hand-pulled hose cart is still rolled out for parades. The brass pole is original; sliding down it is, regrettably, docents-only.
5697 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1876
The wrought-iron gate of the county's first burial ground, where headstones read like a founders' roll call. The Society's twilight lantern tours sell out every October.
7601 W 57th Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1902
The 1902 headgate that turned prairie into farmland, its cast-iron wheel still operable. An interpretive path explains the ditch system that shaped every farm in the county.
9100 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1893
A restored 1893 one-room school with slate boards, a wood stove, and desks carved with a century of initials. Costumed 'school days' let visitors sit an 1890s spelling lesson.
5745 Teller St, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1959
A sandstone obelisk marking the wagon road that predated the county itself, placed by the centennial committee in 1959 with a time capsule due to open in 2059.
7900 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1882
A one-room stone office where prospectors from the western draws had their ore weighed and, mostly, their hopes dashed. The original balance scales still tip at a breath.
5721 Yukon St, Arvada
1911
The last washhouse from the era when Larkspur County celery won ribbons at two world's fairs. Photographs inside show the creek lined with washing crews at harvest.
7695 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1907
The 1907 octagonal bandstand where the Larkspur Silver Cornet Band played every summer Sunday for 60 years. Restored in 2019, it hosts brass bands again each July.
7515 Grandview Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1873
Forty feet of the original 1873 iron bridge, preserved on the creek bank beside its granite marker. Run a hand along rivets hammered by a crew paid in flour and beef.
7250 Grandview Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1915
A 1915 Aermotor windmill and stock tank preserved where the Tucker family ranched for 80 years, still spinning against the hogback skyline at the county's western edge.
17700 W 64th Ave, Arvada
Larkspur County Historical Society1889
The original 300-foot passenger platform, its edge boards still stenciled with track numbers. Stand where four generations of Larkspur County said their hellos and goodbyes.
5601 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Shopping
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipAntiques & Vintage
Three houses' worth of Colorado farmhouse furniture, enamelware, and the county's largest wall of vintage license plates, arranged across an actual front porch.
10105 W 64th Ave, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipOutdoor & Sporting
Boots, maps, and trail advice for the county's western hogbacks, staffed by people who hiked the trail you're asking about last weekend.
9705 W 64th Ave, Arvada
Books & Media
A creaky-floored bookshop with a letterpress studio in back — staff print the district's posters on a 1902 Chandler & Price and will print your name on a bookmark while you browse.
7700 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipFood & Specialty
A corner grocery stocking county-made goods — mill flour, creamery ice cream, taproom growlers — plus produce stands out front from June to October.
6395 Kipling St, Arvada
Gifts & Souvenirs
The official county store: ranch-brand caps, Makers Hall glassware, mill-ground pancake flour, and the complete postcard set of all twelve water towers in the county.
5719 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipBooks & Media
Crates of vinyl, a wall of local-band tapes, and a listening booth built from a grain bin. The owner's 'Colorado only' shelf is the district's unofficial music archive.
8215 Ralston Rd, Arvada
Ironbridge Main Street PartnershipHome & Garden
Fabric, yarn, and notions in a former dry-goods store, with the district's communal quilting frame set up by the window — drop in and add a few stitches to the current quilt.
7920 Ralston Rd, Arvada
This button can sit in the corner of every page of your website. Visitors tap it to open your map, tours, games, and/or events in a popup window, without leaving your site. Give it a try.
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