Denver Trolley

The Denver Trolley, long known as the Platte Valley Trolley, is a heritage streetcar line operated by the Denver Tramway Heritage Society that began service on July 1, 1989. It departs from Confluence Park — the meeting of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, the historic spot where Denver itself was founded — and runs south along the west bank of the Platte to Lakewood Gulch. Before 2007 the line continued west on the old interurban short-line tracks of the Denver and Intermountain Railroad all the way to Sheridan Boulevard, until RTD's FasTracks West Corridor light rail, opened in 2013, claimed that route. The operation deliberately recalls the era when streetcars were Denver's primary transportation, and in particular the group of six open 'Seeing Denver' sightseeing cars that worked the city's rails around 1920. Today the trolley's roughly 25-minute narrated tour passes the Children's Museum, the Downtown Aquarium, Empower Field at Mile High, and Elitch Gardens, and the line also runs a football shuttle to Broncos home games and is available for charters.