Cherry Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, 48.0 miles long, in Colorado in the United States. The creek is named for the profusion of black chokecherry shrubs that grow along its banks. Cherry Creek rises in the high plateau, east of the Front Range, in northwestern El Paso County. It flows north, through Castlewood Canyon State Park where it is spa…
Cherry Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, 48.0 miles long, in Colorado in the United States. The creek is named for the profusion of black chokecherry shrubs that grow along its banks. Cherry Creek rises in the high plateau, east of the Front Range, in northwestern El Paso County. It flows north, through Castlewood Canyon State Park where it is spanned by the historic Cherry Creek Bridge, past Parker and through portions of Centennial and Aurora, and into southeast Denver. It flows northwest through Denver, becoming an urban stream and joining the South Platte River at Confluence Park in central Denver just west of downtown and approximately 5 miles east of the foothills, near the site where the city of Denver was founded in 1858.
Progression: South Platte Platte · Missouri Mississippi
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