A good portion of the Wasatch Front residences are absolutely on the mountains

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Dec 15, 2024
6:37:21pm

fattycoug All-American

A good portion of the Wasatch Front residences are absolutely on the mountains

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fattycoug

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Denver isn’t a mountain city.

Longseason

5:25pm

Denver has all the crime and traffic of big city with none of the accompanying

Blueto

5:26pm

Slc has higher violent and property crime than Denver.

JamieTartt

6:43pm

SLC is a mess.

Choke

7:12pm

I live in CO Springs. Hate Denver with a passion. So ugly, soulless, crowded.

Mitty

8:34pm

What does that mean?

Goliath

5:27pm

It means it's not in the mountains.

byuluvr

5:28pm

It’s a plains city. But you can see the mountains from it.

5:34pm

More of a coastal city

thewaterboy

5:28pm

True. It’s only 700 ft higher elevated than Provo.

RdF3

5:31pm

Yep it’s on the High Plains

STL

5:34pm

RE: Yep it’s on the High Plains

Longseason

5:36pm

That’s it? I thought it was much higher.

allaboutthegainz

6:20pm

Lately, it is a lot higher than that. Crazy.

eyes4byu

7:51pm

Neither is Salt Lake City, nor Provo.

kimdaddy35

5:34pm

A good portion of the Wasatch Front residences are absolutely on the mountains

fattycoug

6:37pm

So are a good amount of the Denver Metro area residences.

kimdaddy35

6:39pm

Actual Salt lake and actual Provo both have good portions of residences

fattycoug

6:42pm

I've been and lived in both and have never seen a Salt Lake City address nor a Provo address in the mountains.

kimdaddy35

6:47pm

This count

7:08pm

Walk me through this. Denver is a mile high. How can that not be a "mountain city"?

HarlemCoug

5:36pm

If you look at Denver from west to East. Not a mountain in sight.

Longseason

5:38pm

Denver is next to mountains on the west, zero on the east.

mudpupper

5:52pm

Mountain adjacent

Longseason

6:01pm

Not even really next to them. Like an hour away from actual mountains

RevolutionDeathsquad

6:34pm

It’s like 20 minutes from Denver even to any foothills. That’s SLC to Draper.

RUNBYU1

8:58pm

Take the time to drive through what's probably usually a "flyover state" to you

joelvandyne

6:02pm

Depends on what you consider "Denver". The metro area includes mountains

Colorado

5:39pm

And there’s about half a dozen 14er’s within a 1.5 hour drive from Denver.

Housemartin

6:16pm

RE: Denver isn’t a mountain city.

5:54pm

But it is a county all by itself.

gwalker

6:00pm

Salt Lake is what everyone thinks Denver is. Denver is a Great Plains city a long drive from good mountains.

Sandstone Cougar

6:08pm

You are confusing decent mountains with ski resorts. Mt Evans is 30 mins from Denver and higher than any mountain

kimdaddy35

6:27pm

It’s 85 mins if by some miracle no traffic, and by far the closest high country

RUNBYU1

8:53pm

Are you mapping to the top?

Colorado

8:58pm

Going off of driving there basically. I guess you could say an hour to the echo

RUNBYU1

9:06pm

And for the record, I prefer living in Golden to living in the Wasatch Front

RUNBYU1

9:06pm

*Mt Blue Sky

Colorado

8:57pm

RE: Denver isn’t a mountain city.

RdF3

6:36pm

Now do one looking the other direction

Longseason

6:37pm

That direction allows Denver to not get the inversions SLC gets.

JamieTartt

6:40pm

Although true, it doesn’t help the perspective that Denver is in the mountains

Longseason

6:55pm

That’s a very deceptive shot using extreme zoom to make it look much better than

RUNBYU1

8:59pm

Maybe so but the skyline from a little further away can be absolutely stunning. Like Boulder is pretty but coming down

Colorado

9:07pm

So having a very large mountain range on one side of the city doesn't qualify as

thewaterboy

6:46pm

Correct. It is the end of the Great Plains.

Longseason

6:56pm

I disagree with that

thewaterboy

6:59pm

Or the beginning of the Rocky Mountains.

DudeBro

7:28pm

…20 minutes from any foothills that are another 45 to any high country…

RUNBYU1

9:00pm

The very large mountain range is the equivalent of SLC to Provo away from Denver

RUNBYU1

9:01pm

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