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Golden History Moment
For many decades, Golden’s kids enjoyed sledding and tobogganing down our hilly streets. Before automobiles came along, it was reasonably safe (and a lot of fun!) to slide down Washington Avenue from 15th Street (by Foothills Art Center) all the way to Clear Creek.
This pastime became more dangerous when cars dominated the streets. In March of 1947, an 11 year old died when a neighbor backed out of his driveway and ran over the girl, who was sledding in their street.
After that, the police chief tried designating certain streets as sledding areas. They began with Cheyenne Street, from 14th to 11th. They tried blocking the cross streets with sawhorses, but found that cars just drove around the barricades.
The City tried improved barriers coupled with stop signs and police officers on hand to issue tickets. This was a manpower-intensive approach, but was very popular with the youngsters. The police set up a second “official” sledding area on Ford Street from 5th to 7th Streets.
Residents continued to identify good sledding hills and asking the police to block those streets for sledding. The Chief put out a call for parents to assume responsibility for placing the barriers and guarding the slopes. He had few takers, but a December 17, 1953 Transcript article identified the following as good sledding hills:
Maple, between 16th and 12th
21st, between Table Drive and East St.
Pinal Road
East, between 16th and 13th
1st, between Washington and Ford
Cheyenne, between 6th and 8th
Another child was injured in a sled-car accident in 1955. This time, the 7 year old escaped with a broken arm.
In 1956, Lookout View Drive was added to the list of good snowing hills.
That same year, City Council began to discuss the dangers of cars and sleds sharing the streets. At first they focused on how to more effectively ban cars from the sledding streets, but by 1965 they had, instead, banned all sledding on Golden’s streets.
The Transcript recommended that would-be sliders use the hill behind Johnson Elementary (next to the the Johnson Road post office).
Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
