North End, Central Park Denver: Inside the Last Village (Honest Tour)

What the tour covers

North End sits at the top of Central Park, north of 56th Avenue, with the newest homes in the neighborhood and open prairie right at its edge. Build-out started in 2019, so almost everything here is new construction or close to it. It also sits next to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge: 15,000 acres, 330+ species, a bison herd of about 250, and a free 11-mile Wildlife Drive.

In this video:

• The feel: why North End feels different from the rest of Central Park
• The homes: what builders are putting up and what you get for the money
• The location: Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the Arsenal, downtown and DIA
• The honest tradeoff: it is a drive, not a walk, to the 29th Ave Town Center
• Who North End suits, and who should look at a different village

Chapters

• 0:00 The last village in Central Park
• 0:11 Location and feel, north of 56th Avenue
• 0:22 The homes, built in the last 10 years
• 0:45 Trails, the Arsenal, Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, downtown and DIA
• 0:58 The tradeoff: a drive, not a walk, to 29th Avenue
• 1:16 The 12th and final village, build-out from 2019
• 1:33 Bigger lots than classic Central Park
• 1:52 From airport to neighborhood: 4,700 acres, 35,000 residents
• 2:15 The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
• 2:54 Who picks North End
• 3:05 Wrap-up

The tour in words

If you want the newest homes in Central Park, this is where you look. This is the North End, the youngest village in the neighborhood, and today I’m going to show you what it actually feels like to live here.

North End sits at the top of Central Park, north of 56th Avenue. It’s quieter up here, the streets are super wide, the homes are bigger, and you’re right up against the open space. On a clear day, the mountain views here are some of the best in the entire neighborhood. Most of North End was built in the last 10 years, so you get modern floor plans, bigger lots than the older villages, and homes that still feel new. If the classic Central Park look, small lots and front porches close to the street, is not your vibe, North End is the other end of that spectrum.

You’re minutes away from the trails and the open space around the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, and Dick’s Sporting Goods Park is right there just down the road. Downtown and the airport are straight drives, you can get right on I-70 and head wherever you want.

But here’s the tradeoff, because every village in Central Park has one. You’re a drive, not a walk, from 29th Avenue, the town center and all the restaurants. And the trees are young, so the shade and the mature feel of the older villages are still a few years away.

North End is actually the 12th and final village built in Central Park, the final piece of the whole master plan. The buildout only began in 2019, so nothing here is more than about 7 years old. That’s 25 years of building out Central Park, ending here.

The lots are bigger than classic Central Park. Parkwood’s Shenandoah series lots ran around 8,000 square feet, and 5 of the first 8 sold within an hour of release. If there’s anything about Central Park that people complain about, it’s small lots and small yards. Not the case in North End.

This whole neighborhood used to be an airport. The runways closed in 1995 and 4,700 acres became an entire neighborhood: nearly 35,000 residents in about 12,000 homes, 60 parks, and 1,100 acres of park and open space, which is wild. Nearly a third of the site was kept as parkland.

One of the coolest things about North End is that it backs up to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. There’s over 15,000 acres here, one of the largest wildlife refuges in the whole country, with more than 330 species of animals, which my kids love. The bison herd started with just 16 animals in 2007 and is now up to about 250. Bald eagles nest there, and they fly overhead all the time. You can see them from your backyard, from your house, from out for a walk. It’s incredible.

So who picks North End? Buyers who want a newer, bigger home and a quieter street, and are happy trading a short drive to get to the other places.

I’m Lewi Gault. I live in Central Park. I’ve been here for years, and I tour every village like this on sellingcentralpark.com, with real takes on the pros and cons. So if North End is on your list, the full guide is linked below. Reach out if you have any questions.

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Thinking about buying or selling in Central Park, Denver? Call or text Lewi at (303) 915-2201.