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Meet Your Trip Leader
Lowell Ponds Open Space (Adams County)
5/29/2025
6:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Leader:
Patrick O'Driscoll patodrisk@gmail.com or 303-885-6955 mobile
Linda Purcell purcellzz@hotmail.com or 13035037989
Trip Difficulty: Easy
Directions
Meet in the parking lot along the west side of Lowell Blvd at West 55th Place, just south of I-76. Exit the freeway at Federal Blvd, go south to 55th and proceed west to Lowell Blvd and the parking lot on the west side of Lowell.
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This trip is limited to the first 12 registrations.
Habitats to bird: Developed, Riparian, Scrub
Ready for a “new” birding destination? Join us for a morning with the birds at Adams County’s Lowell Ponds Open Space, hidden in plain sight south of where I-76 crosses over Lowell Street in Adams County. It’s been an eBird hotspot for years, although most online maps and references still mislabel it by its old “State Wildlife Area” name. But this will be DFO’s first field trip there. In an article in DFO’s most recent Lark Bunting quarterly journal, trip co-leader Linda Purcell included it among her favorite overlooked, under birded “industrial Denver” spots. We’ll walk up to 2 miles of level trail and defunct blacktop around its plain ponds, wooded Clear Creek shoreline and scratchy remnants of urban rubble and grit. It’s a rough-cut diamond that has attracted 188 species on eBird visits. Expect to see spring migrants and summer nesters in its mix of creek, marsh, scrubby meadow, cottonwoods, weeds, gravel and dirt. Dress for the weather and bring water and a hat. There’s a porta-toilet across Lowell Street at the parking lot for the Clear Creek Trail, which also runs through the open space.
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