I would probably agree with this.

I'm in Lone Tree and before our office moved to DTC and I was commuting downtown it was anywhere from 45 min to an hour 20 to get home at 5PM. Never dealt with morning rush hour but I would guess it to be the same.

I guess specific location can make a difference.
I can be on I70/25 from my office door in about 2-3 minutes as I'm right at the roundabout on pecos/70; whereas if you're downtown, you're maybe in a parking garage, stuck at a few lights so it's 10 min or more just to get to 25.
Then when I exit ridgegate, it's a nascar track along empty fields until you hit chambers, and that's where I live. If I were in canterberry in east parker, it would add another 10 easily if not more.

1:20 from downtown to lone tree assuming no really bad wreck or storm, that seems like quite an outlier.

Yeah was just giving the best and worst of the commute. We were deep downtown at republic, parked in the garage at the Sheraton so would easily take 10-15 to get to 25. Then those days if there was a fender bender even on 25 it was over an hour easy. 35 min in the morning before most people were awake though!

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mwc0746 said:

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Yes Downtown 3 days a week. Wife would work in Littleton.

Probably ok with 30-45 minute commute.

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I don't think any of the common southern suburbs (HR, LT, Parker) would work for this. I live in east Highlands Ranch and the commute to the Tech Center is about 30 min, not making it to downtown in less than 45 min.

Maybe Lakewood would be a good middle ground. The northern parts of Littleton might take you to downtown in less than 45?

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30 min from east HR to tech center? Isn't that like 5-7 miles?

I drop my kids off at main/jordan in Parker at 8:30 and typically get to work by 5-10 after 9. Office is I70/pecos, so just north of downtown.
On a bad day, it's 45 min. Rarely been longer than that.

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I'm 12 miles from the office so about double your estimate. It's 10 miles if I go Quebec all the way but that would add time.

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Yes Downtown 3 days a week. Wife would work in Littleton.

Probably ok with 30-45 minute commute.

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What would you say are the most important things that you're looking for? Good schools, walkability, proximity to mountains, etc.?

Anyone know somewhere to get live crawfish? Lone Tree/Highlands Ranch Area

I'll go halfsies on a bag if you invite us over to eat with you haha. That is if you can actually find some. You might try talking to NoNos restaurant in highlands ranch. I know they fly in live crawfish on Saturdays. Maybe they can order an extra bag to throw on the plane for you. Be prepared to pay a pretty penny up here though….

had a lot out hail out in Littleton tonight. Usually a weather app gives me a heads up but this one went from nothing to 10 minutes of hail in a snap. Luckily it was all pretty small. After a while there were some cars not able to get up the hill on our street, that was fun to watch.

Saw pictures of hail close to .75" in west HR, only pea size on the east side.

The Buccees is finally finished, good lord is it packed.

TheVarian said:

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The Buccees is finally finished, good lord is it packed.

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I went there on Saturday night. It was a fantastic experience! The kids loved it and are wanting to go back.

The answer to Ken Caryl debate!

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The answer to Ken Caryl debate!

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A guy named Carroll? How do we know if that's care-ul or car-ul?

seeing as it's a boy, maybe it is Car-ul?

Not a good day for trash day. The neighborhood is filled with trash bins toppled over from the damn wind.

Anyone going to any Red Rocks shows this season? Lost of great artists and prices are now quite normal. Just grabbed a pair for my fiancee and I to see Whiskey Myers, Black Pistol Fire and Jason Boland in GA. She's grabbing a pair for us to see Flatland Cavalry and Randy Rogers Band, both of which I've seen at the Grizzly Rose, but a more chill concert at Red Rocks will be perfect.

https://www.redrocksonline.com/events/?view=grid

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Anyone going to any Red Rocks shows this season? Lost of great artists and prices are now quite normal. Just grabbed a pair for my fiancee and I to see Whiskey Myers, Black Pistol Fire and Jason Boland in GA. She's grabbing a pair for us to see Flatland Cavalry and Randy Rogers Band, both of which I've seen at the Grizzly Rose, but a more chill concert at Red Rocks will be perfect.

https://www.redrocksonline.com/events/?view=grid

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I picked up 3 1964 beatles tribute tickets to take my parents both of their birthdays are right around the show.

60th anny (within a few days I think) of when the beatles played red rocks.

Thinking about trying to get to the Lyle Lovett show.

Went to whiskey myers last year. Show was great aside from getting hailed on.

Looking for financial advisor recs in the area. I'm wanting to look into setting up some annuities and other things that I want to do right. I have a general idea of what I'm looking to do, I just need someone to advise and figure out the actual numbers.

My fiance and I are going to head to ViewHouse in downtown Littleton around 5pm to watch the Ags vs. Kentucky CWs if anyone else wants to join.

Happy Hour until 6pm. We'll be on the rooftop bar.

Gotta say, Monument does their Independence Day parade the right way… we had multiple fly overs with C130s. Pretty damn cool for a small town.

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Gotta say, Monument does their Independence Day parade the right way… we had multiple fly overs with C130s. Pretty damn cool for a small town.

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it's been that way for at least 25 years. Have had some vintage WW2 planes occasionally also because of the Museum of World War 2 Aviation at COS airport. Just wished Palmer Lake would have had the fireworks. Always a great display.

And it starts off with the 4 mile 4th of July Fun Run!

Hope y'all are enjoying the weather! We got to the top of Mt. Democrat today. Had to bring the flag too!

Not enjoying the weather this weekend.

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Not enjoying the weather this weekend.

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I keep hearing about this, but we're out of town. Like I got an email that my kids baseball practice was cancelled.
I'm seeing low 90s? I was expecting triple digits!

It's hot for sure! My outdoor thermometer got to 102. But the official Golden weather said 96 yesterday

It was 105 yesterday. It's 100 now and not 1pm yet.

agdaddy04 said:

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It was 105 yesterday. It's 100 now and not 1pm yet.

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interesting. I checked weather bug and weather.com and both were showing low/mid 90s.

Well it was like 34/35 Celsius anyway.

It's possible to vary quite a bit based on cloud cover. We're up just east of Boulder. Clouds rolled in this afternoon and it was much better.

It was cloudy and breezy this afternoon and my kids got cold at the pool!