There's More Than One Cherry Creek Area in Denver

What is most confusing about Denver?

It's the term Cherry Creek. When people first come to Denver, they hear that term and they don't do what to think. At first, they may think it's the Cherry Creek shopping Center near downtown Denver. It offers the most upscale shopping at the Cherry Creek Mall as well as boutique shops and restaurants, art studios, condos lots and townhomes all in a very upscale environment.

Some of the best homes in Denver are in and near the shopping center area. The Cherry Creek is much more than just a shopping center area. It's a real Creek, a stream meandering from Southeast Denver into downtown. It provides recreation not only for bikers pedaling along its shores but also kayakers and even those who want to enjoy a picnic lunch down by the Creek.

Cherry Creek is also a dam built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1950 in the southeast suburbs. It's the building of that damn dam is created all the confusion. Since 1950, Cherry Creek has become an area in the suburbs complete with its own school system, The Cherry Creek School District. Of course, that’s not even in Denver. It’s in Arapahoe County and those schools serve the suburban cities of Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills Centennial and parts of southern Aurora.

I've written a more thorough article about Denver's Cherry Creek real estate on my Denver real estate blog. I hope you read it and it can clear up of the dam confusion; about the Cherry Creek dam of course.

Here are neighborhoods in and adjacient to Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Denver: Belcaro - Sprawling ranch homes and huge estates next to affordable ranch homes. Bonnie Brae - Tutors, bungalows and brand-new homes. Cherry Creek - Opulent townhomes, condos and single-family homes. Cheesman Park - Historic Victorians, high-rise condominiums for citydwellers. Congress Park - Walk to Cherry Creek from older bungalows and Granda family homes. Denver Country Club - Stunning turn of the century mansions. Hilltop - one of Denver's best neighborhoods with ranch homes and brand-new estates. Washington Park Young, active lifestyles near the Park with two "lakes".

Here are Denver suburbs in the renoun Cherry Creek School District: Southern Aurora - Affordable and newer single-family homes or families. Greenwood Village - Upscale single-family homes close to everything. Cherry Hills Village - Exclusive homes for Denver's movers and shakers. Centennial - Variety of affordable homes in Denver South suburbs.