Fairfax Park

Fairfax Park is a park in Adams, Colorado and has an elevation of 5,141 feet. Fairfax Park is situated nearby to the hamlet Adams City, as well as near the town Commerce City.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dick’s Sporting Goods Park and Cherokee Generating Station.

Dick’s Sporting Goods Park

Stadium

Photo: Tom Pratt, CC BY 2.0.

Dick's Sporting Goods Park, also known as DSG Park, is a soccer-specific stadium in Commerce City, Colorado, that is home to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Dick’s Sporting Goods Park is situated 2 miles southeast of Fairfax Park.

Cherokee Generating Station

Power station

Cherokee Generating Station is a natural gas-fired power plant in North Washington, Colorado, about 5 miles north of downtown Denver. Cherokee currently has a nameplate capacity of 1006.4 megawatts and a net summer capacity of 886 megawatts, making it the largest power plant in Adams County and the second-largest natural gas–fired plant in the state behind Fort St. Cherokee Generating Station is situated 2 miles west of Fairfax Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Commerce City and Derby.

Commerce City

Town

Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.

Commerce City is a home rule city located in Adams County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 62,418 at the 2020 United States census, a 35.95% increase since the 2010 United States census.

Derby

Village

Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0.

Derby is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Dupont

Hamlet

Dupont is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The Dupont Post Office has the ZIP Code 80024. Dupont is situated 1½ miles northeast of Fairfax Park.

Fairfax Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Adams, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.81957° or 39° 49′ 10″ north

Longitude

-104.9282° or 104° 55′ 42″ west

Elevation

5,141 feet (1,567 metres)

Open location code

85FQR39C+RP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 263168475

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

6348191

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