I70 to Central City, CO KOA
We'll be coming into the Denver area on I70 from the East. Headed to the KOA in Central City. What are your thoughts on routes? It looks like either the Central City Parkway or highway 6/119. (The t...
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Heisenberg wrote:
We were there last summer. The Central City Parkway will take you to KOA which is prior to Central City. It is very easy from I70. We used 119 to get to Golden Gate State Park which goes through Black Hawk and it was not bad with our 35' and Jeep Wrangler (RIP).
^^^^^ This.
The Central City Parkway was built for a specific reason...to get folks to Central City without having to go through Black Hawk. It's an easy drive coming off I-70 with 3 lane sections. And the KOA is right there on the CCP as you come in to town.
Big rivalry between the 2 towns with casino gambling. CC claimed, with perhaps some validity, that BH was taking all the tourist traffic with the BH casinos, and that folks weren't going all the way up the hill to Central City. BTW, it's a rather steep climb through BH to CC and some narrow streets.
