Denver Digs Trees: Low-canopy, Focus Neighborhoods

The Park People works across Denver to nurture a diverse, vibrant, and verdant urban forest. It’s essential to keep planting everywhere in order to maintain a diverse forest. But, we put more effort and resources into areas with lower tree canopy in order to bring the benefits of trees to everyone. We call these low-canopy focus neighborhoods. Our pograms like Denver Digs Trees offer discounts to residents in these areas.

We recognize 28 low-canopy focus neighborhoods:

Athmar Park, Auraria, Baker, Barnum, Barnum West, Chaffee Park, Clayton, Cole, College View/South Platte, East Colfax, Elyria-Swansea, Five Points, Globeville, Green Valley Ranch, Jefferson Park, Lincoln Park, Mar Lee, Montbello, Northeast Park Hill, Overland, Ruby Hill, Skyland, Sun Valley, Valverde, Villa Park, West Colfax, Westwood, and Whittier.

Note: our focus neighborhood selection process is similar to, but distinct from, Denver’s NEST neighborhood index.