I don't know too much about that area. I live on the other side of the city. Denver is very bike friendly and the trails take you pretty much all over the place. If you ride to the foothills there are plenty of hills for climbing and several nice loops you can do.
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03-29-2009, 06:03 AM #1
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03-29-2009, 06:04 AM #2
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I will ask around for you about Aroura...like most cities there are good areas and bad areas.
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05-01-2009, 06:41 AM #3
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another welcome to Colorado, and congrats on med school! I live in Colorado Springs, but lived in Denver for four years and commute to Denver downtown a few days a week...I'm not all that familiar with Aurora either, though I did see the new medical campus and it's pretty nice!
Living carfree in that area will be a bit challenging but with a bike things are pretty doable -- Denver, despite the rep of being "in the mountains" is really flat - that plus great weather and great bike advocacy means biking is a happy thing here.
I highly recommend getting this map: http://bicyclecolo.org/itemdetails.cfm?id=250. (think about joining Bicycle Colorado, too, it's a fantastic organization!)
It's an incredibly good resource for figuring out how to get around by bike, and I've used it before with a compass and a string to decide where my radius to look for housing would be, and then you can overlap that with the rtd-denver.com bus route maps (all buses here have bike racks). Your six mile radius will give you quite a lot of choices. Park Hill and the Stapleton area might be a nice way to be close enough to school but give you fairly easy access to downtown when you have some time off. Lowry has done some nice re-development if you're looking for an apartment.
Good luck!
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05-01-2009, 08:08 AM #4
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Insanely jealous!
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05-02-2009, 04:24 AM #5
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Congratulations on Med school. I live up in the foothills in Conifer about a 25 minute drive from the Denver metro area. Denver is flat but where I live it is not. I live on a very popular and difficult bike training route and I see hundreds of cyclists go by in a weekend. As a someone just getting back to riding a bike, I go down to the flatlands of Denver and use the bicycle paths to start my fitness journey.
Welcome to Colorado.
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