E-470 North - Denver to Thornton

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64th Avenue previously ended just east of the diamond interchange at Exit 25. The road was lengthened to the industrial park south of Denver International Airport (DEN).
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E-470 shifts northwest into the city and county of Denver ahead of Exit 28 for Peña Boulevard and Denver International Airport (DEN).
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The Front Range comes into view along E-470 north west beyond E 64th Avenue.
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Peña Boulevard is a freeway that connects Interstate 70 near the exchange with I-225 in Aurora with the passenger terminal at Denver International Airport (DEN). It is named after former Denver Mayor Federico Peña, who was President Clinton's Secretary of Transportation.
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Exit 28 constitutes a cloverleaf interchange joining E-470 with Peña Boulevard.
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Peña Boulevard curves southwest between the Gateway and Green Valley Ranch neighborhoods in Denver.
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E-470 proceeds north across Second Creek.
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The fourth toll collection point along E-470 northbound follows the E 88th Avenue overpass.
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Toll Plaza was greened out on this interchange sequence sign.
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A diamond interchange joins E-470 with E 96th Avenue along the Commerce City line east of Rocky Mountain National Arsenal Wildlife Refuge.
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West of the Renunion community and Wildlife Refuge, a Superfund clean-up site, 96th Avenue connects with Highway 2 and Interstate 76.
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The succeeding exit from E-470 northbound is with 104th Avenue, a four lane arterial west from Reunion in Commerce City to Westminster.
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West from Highway 2 in Commerce City, 104th Avenue is part of SH 44, a 4.96 mile long route to Thornton, Federal Heights and U.S. 287 (Federal Boulevard).
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Exit 34 connects with 120th Avenue west to SH 2 and Interstate 76 west to Denver. There is no direct access from E-470 north to I-76 west otherwise.
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Barr Lake State Park lies north of the diamond interchange (Exit 34) with 120th Avenue via either Buckey Road or Tower Road.
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E-470 and Interstate 76 converge with just two ramps linking the two. Exit 35 joins I-76 east from E-470 north and Exit 18 from I-76 west to E-470 south.
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Interstate 76 runs northeast between Brighton and Barr Lake State Park to the tow of Lochbuie en route to Fort Morgan.
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Regionally Interstate 76 joins Denver with Sterling and I-80 east to Omaha, Nebraska.
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Continuing west from Second Creek, A trumpet interchange (Exit 38) anda ccess road link E-470 with U.S. 85 in south Brighton.
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U.S. 85 heads north to Brighton, Fort Lupton, Greeley and Cheyenne, Wyoming. U.S. 85 south joins westbound Interstate 76 toward Denver.
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U.S. 85 is one of three major highways that span the northern Front Range, the others being I-25 and U.S. 287. Although U.S. 85 is not a freeway, it is a divided highway or expressway from Interstate 76 north to Greeley.
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The final AET gantry on northbound E-470 is near milepost 39.
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The diamond interchange with Colorado Boulevard is the first of two exits from E-470 north for the city of Thornton.
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The forthcoming section of Colorado Boulevard is discontinuous with the section of that follows SH 2 through Denver.
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Colorado Boulevard leads north from Exit 43 to SH 7 (160th Avenue) and south to SH 44 (104th Avenue) in Thorton.
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E-470 advances west across a Union Pacific Railroad line to a diamond interchange (Exit 45) with York Street.
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This section of York Street links 152nd Parkway and 144th Avenue to the south with SH 7 (60th Avenue) to the north.
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Northwest Expressway extends the beltway west from I-25, 1.75 miles to Sheridan Parkway and 9.25 miles to U.S. 36 in Broomfield.
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Northwest Parkway (SH 470N) opened west from I-25/E-470 on November 24, 2003.
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A four level interchange links E-470 and Northwest Parkway (SH 470N) with Interstate 25 at Exit 47.
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The exchange at E-470/I-25 is one of two symmetrical stack interchanges in the Denver metropolitan area.
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Interstate 25 leads north to Fort Collins and Cheyenne, Wyoming. South from Exit 47, I-25 travels to Downtown Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
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