The Bear Creek Trail corridor spans from Fox Hollow Lane to Wadsworth Boulevard and encompasses several large drainageways. It is a significant resource to the Lakewood community, particularly the open space along this corridor. The project replaced two pedestrian bridges, improved the Estes Street trail underpass, and widened a 950-foot concrete path on the creek causeway, along with replacing 1.8 miles of the existing 8-foot concrete path with a 10-foot path and 2.65 miles of 6-foot-wide soft surface side trail through Lakewood’s open space. The Muller team provided data collection, field survey, wetland investigations, engineering design, trail design, and floodplain analysis for the project. Our team completed an SRH-2D model to confirm the spill locations and the flow depth present within the adjacent Stone House Park. The Bear Creek corridor is one of the City’s busiest trails, making these improvements even more crucial. It is a regional trail facility that connects the C-470 Trail with the South Platte River Trail.

Muller and its consultant partners provided landscape design, planning, trail, traffic, environmental support services, survey, and SUE. Construction is now complete, and the result is a new, safe and resilient multimodal trail for bicyclists, dog-walkers, and family outings acting as a gateway to the 2.7-mile Bear Creek Open Space through Lakewood. The open space area includes a rushing creek, ponds, creek access, fishing, and the historical Stone House.