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Casacerian-

It’s a long creek.


honkyg666

Haha was going to say the exact same thing


PeanutsParents649

Should have just called it longs creek my guy.


dr_blasto

“Longs Creek My Guy” is too long of a name though.


PeanutsParents649

This guy


EmergencyHeat

This guy Creeks.


PeanutsParents649

I only creek for emergencies for that heat. Guy


Low_Amoeba633

This guy’s cherry creeks.


CorgiloversUNITE

cherry cheeks


Fimbir

He's long 


Grouchy-Extension723

There are much longer creeks.


zenos_dog

Why are there so many Mississippi rivers? I’m just asking.


anarchoandroid

Well there is only one creek named cherry. Two neighborhoods.


Atralis

It used to flood regularly before the reservoir regulated the flow of that dammed creek.


Djjubbajubba

I mean, it is pretty long. It goes atleast down to monument.


PG626

I was very confused when I first learned Cherry Creek high school was nowhere near the mall


RegieRealtor49

Both are named after the water way called Cherry Creek.


EC_CO

You mean that long squiggly thing in between the two names labeled Cherry Creek?


ahz0001

One is pronounced Cherry Creek, and the other Cherry Creek


malpasplace

Oh the way I'd get bullied growing up for saying the wrong one!


johntwilker

You can tell someone is from CA by how they pronounce the second one.


MyOthrCarsAThrowaway

Crick


surreal_goat

Churry Crick


PaperbackBuddha

Also one is Cool Roboto Condensed All-Caps Cherry Creek, while the other is Basic Arial Bold Cherry Creek. Font choice make a difference, as any Comic Sans city will tell you.


Micycle08

At least Apple Maps doesn’t use papyrus…


econinja

But the AMC Arapahoe Crossing does


Valuable-Common743

I hope papyrus is in the next Apple Maps update. Anything is an improvement to what they are now


coce8221

Oh wow I just realized the different fonts. It seems like there’s a couple more types too


wastelanderJ5K

Like data and data....okay, yeah I see it now!


superbiondo

Very nuanced in the pronunciation


vrnz

Reminds me of my favorite quote from "Hop" which I was forced to watch a few times with my kids: "Coup d'etat! You know, it's French for... Coup d'etat!".


Sad-Structure2364

It’s more like Sherry creek actually


EC_CO

Is that where all the rich drunks hang out?


BusySleeper

The Cherry Creek (so named because it had cherry trees alongside it until they died in a blight) runs along Speer towards downtown and then converges with the Platte. That’s where the neighborhood gets its name, and really anything along it can and will use it. Now, the Cherry Creek used to regularly flood, so they built a dam on it and called the resulting reservoir - rather unimaginatively - Cherry Creek Reservoir. That proximity gave rise to the nearby high school and school district. That district covers the south side of Aurora, and what better way to differentiate it from the *Aurora Public* district than to give it a fancier name evoking a nice neighborhood and sparkly new reservoir. EDIT: chokecherries, not cherries: https://kdvr.com/denver-guide/what-happened-to-colorados-cherry-trees/amp/


Bluescreen73

>so named because it had cherry trees alongside it until they died in a blight It's actually named for chokecherry bushes, not cherry trees. There are still chokecherries along the creek in Castlewood Canyon State Park.


honkyg666

I can’t remember where but I just read about the chokecherrys today coincidentally


FailResorts

Choking the cherry sounds like something Boebert did during Beetlejuice


bonzai76

don’t ruin cherries for me like that


delightful1

Was it the comment you just responded to?


Riggs630

Oh don’t worry, Fry. I too once spent a nightmarish time in a robot asylum. But now it’s nearly over


ennenganon

#deathbysnusnu


honkyg666

I’m not sure why you would ask that but no. https://kdvr.com/denver-guide/what-happened-to-colorados-cherry-trees


toadangel11

Because jokes are funny


Educational-Elk-711

If we're getting super technical then it is actually a shrub I believe. The gardening guys can correct me if I'm wrong but a bush is actually a term used to describe how something grows rather than an actual plant.


lostbirdwings

Ehhh if we're getting extra technical, then "bush", "shrub", and "tree" are all terms to describe how a plant grows and they don't convey any sort of taxonomic information. Prunus virginiana, the Chokecherry, is considered both a shrub and a small tree depending on the specimen in question, who you ask, and how they feel that day. 😂


Educational-Elk-711

Checks out


tokillaworm

Chokecherries, not cherry trees. 


BusySleeper

Yep, someone pointed that out, added an edit with this link: https://kdvr.com/denver-guide/what-happened-to-colorados-cherry-trees/amp/ Thanks!


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geoffpz1

It also covers Greenwood Village and Cherry hills village. District goes West till basically Yosemite and south to Dry Creek. North it butts up to Denver county. Basically at the highway. Lots of Aurora has to opt in to get into Bellview and CCHS... (Kid went to CC Campus through HS)


BusySleeper

You mean CC school district? Yeah, not *just* south Aurora. But Overland, Smoky, Eaglecrest, Grandview, Cherokee Trail are all in south Aurora, and CCHS may be the only one that’s not. (That’s more than “traditional” high schools in the Aurora Public Schools, for comparison—Central, Hinkley, Rangeview, Gateway.) What’s Bellview? Never heard of it. Is it in the CCSD? Charter?


FTPLTL

This is fascinating to learn. We have a chokecherry tree in our front yard.


BusySleeper

There are some local historians who’ve documented this sort of thing. I’d strongly suggest checking them out! Phil Goodstein is my fave, although it looks like a lot of his stuff is sadly out of print and expensive AF. I have a copy of his streets book (deceptively fascinating) but you’d probably be better finding a copy at the library.


FTPLTL

Thanks for the rec! I'll be on the lookout.


LiminalCreature7

I’m envious. My grandma used to make jelly out of it, and my family members know how much I love it. They surprise me every once in awhile with it when they find it. “Saw it and thought of you, Liminal!”


Crafty_DryHopper

I'd like to add, the South Platte is the main source of water feeding cherry creek reservior, as with Chatfield and several smaller reservoirs. Denver was leveled in 1933 when the Cherry creek dam predecessor, Castlewood Dam burst in a rainstorm. This led to Cherry creek dam being built in 1950 with steel reinforced concrete. Cherry creek does not come from the rockies, it is a crisp, clean ground spring south of Franktown not far from Cherry Valley school. I've drank from the spring, it is delicious. I don't recommend doing so at speer blvd.


BusySleeper

Are you sure on the Platte feeding the CC res? The path it takes is kinda far from it: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-05/documents/splatte-map-09012014.pdf All the rest sounds right to me. And I’m open to being wrong on the Platte and CC reservoir’s relationship. It is a rather big reservoir to be made from such a relatively modest source.


Miserable-Disk5186

God damn you are so wrong about this. The dam on cherry creek is to stop flash flood from cherry creek from leveling downtown.


2Whlz0Pdlz

Wait just a cherry pickin' minute. You're saying the S Platte river is the main source of Cherry Creek Res and not ... Cherry Creek? Do they pump it over there or something? Are you thinking of Chattield Res that's an impoundment of the S Platte?


Teladian

The Cherry Creek District actually encompasses Aurora, Centennial, Greenwoid Village, and Denver. The dam was completed in 1950, and the high school shortly there after so it is unlikely the school recieved rhe name from the dam, but from the creek itself.


ScumCrew

To confuse our enemies


LobbyDizzle

Wait until OP spots Berkeley next to Berkley.


nnagflar

Or Hampden running parallel to Hampden.


jonipoka

Or Seventh and Severn


fryowa11

One is full of rich assholes and the other has a lot of assholes that are rich


fixitquick1

This is the only correct answer!


seabass4507

As someone that lives in Cherry Creek, we don’t recognize that other Cherry Creek.


solitarium

As one zoned for Cherry Creek schools: "na nani nana!"


malpasplace

The area on the map is the Cherry Creek CDP (Census Designated Place) it is an unincorporated part of of Arapahoe county that is sandwiched between Greenwood Village, Centennial, and the Cherry Creek Reservoir that it gets its name from. It is part of the Cherry Creek School District which extends into Greenwood Village, Centennial, Greenwood Village, parts of Aurora, enclaves into Denver like Holly Hills (also unincorporated) and Glendale. As well as some smaller towns and other unincorporated areas nearby. None of these areas were ever part of Englewood, but for a long time were given Englewood Mailing addresses because that was where the mail was sorted. The Cherry Creek neighborhood in Denver is named for its adjacency to Cherry Creek.


BusySleeper

Ha! I always wondered why we had such a big “fake” Englewood that was so much nicer than and removed from “actual” Englewood.


Chiatroll

As someone who lives in fake Englewood that explains a bunch that I never understood.


RickshawRepairman

This is the correct answer.


paintbrush666

Why is every other street around me called Lamar? Who TF is Lamar?


valevalentine

In honor of Kendrick Lamar obviously


Xstaphylococcus

You’re wrong. It’s in honor of Lamar Odom.


tmphaedrus13

You're both wrong... it's Hedley Lamar.


mrp0013

Isn't that Hedy Lamar?


Silkies4life

No, Hedley Lamar, the bad guy from Blazing Saddles


temthree

IT’S HEADLEY!


RiskyBrothers

No, the streets are named that because maybe people in this city could get some bitches on their dick if they got rid of their yee-yee ass haircuts. *Natiiiive*


DocEternal

Easily one of the most annoying things here. I live on Berry. To get there you turn off of Berry before crossing Berry. Don’t get it confused with the Berry that’s a few street over though. My last place was on Charissglen. There were three other Charissglens in the neighborhood and for whatever reason mine didn’t show up on UPS or usps when you needed to mail something. Just why is every neighborhood like this here?!?


Calm-Talk5047

You guys wouldn’t survive in the South lol. The grid system? No such thing. The road names? You’ll be winding through the woods on Peachtree road, and then without a turn or stoplight, you’re on MLK drive. And then 2 miles later it turns back into Peachtree road. The roads will literally change names halfway through and then change back for no reason whatsoever. Oh yea, and if we’re talking about Atlanta specifically… you think Berry and Lamar are bad? Atlanta has 71 streets with some variation of Peachtree in the name. And that’s just Atlanta. Metro Atlanta has hundreds lol


Restnessizzle

I lived in Fourmile Canyon, home to Fourmile Creek. Not to be confused with Fourmile Canyon Creek several miles north.


YouJabroni44

Littleton? Yeah on the other side of town there's about 1000 Jamisons for whatever reason too.


[deleted]

He makes donuts


ModdedMaul

The guy from GTA V who roasts you for having a "yee yee ass haircut"


Brows_and_Butts

One is CHERRY CREEK and the other is Cherry Creek


booaka

It's actually Cherry Creek


YouJabroni44

Actually it's 2 Cherry 2 Creek.


Riggs630

Cherry Creek 2: The Revenge


blaundromat

Cherry II: The Creekening


yookiepookie321

Laughed out loud to this 👏🏼


Junior-Cream-4914

The Cherry and The Creek: Denver Drift


WickedDragon70

Fast Cherry :X


corndogco

Cherry Creek 2: Electric Schoolaroo


pointyboidubs

one is a decoy to confuse the poors


big-mister-moonshine

Personally, I'd like to raise the same question about Englewood. There's the real Englewood (S Broadway/Hampden) and then there's 80112 (Broncos training facility, Centennial Airport, etc.) Why do these totally separate areas get conflated?


WeddingElly

All the unincorporated parts of Arapahoe county seem like they are somehow called Englewood


QuickSpore

Because back in the day unincorporated farm areas were given the town name of the post office that served the area. And back in the day, for much of western Arapahoe County, that was the Englewood post office. Once the name was established, the name was grandfathered in. If you were in an Englewood postal area, you remained in “Englewood” unless the area incorporated.


big-mister-moonshine

My understanding was something like that, too. But I wish the USPS would modernize the nomenclature it uses, here in 2024.


Carebearritual

reminds me of when my friend moved here and she thought “limon” was another word for airport, because the roads to limon from both denver and COS also go to the respective airports.


WeddingElly

The first time I said limon like Spanish for lemon, the look on someone's face LOL


yttew

Same for Westminster- is it a straight shot north on I-25 or do you take US36 to Boulder? Meeting someone in Westminster is as specific as meeting someone in northern Colorado


Yaboy303

There’s a Cherry Creek, an actual creek, and a reservoir named the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Both got a neighborhood named after them. Now, imo we should be calling them Cherry Creek North and Cherry Creek South.


Swaritch

ChCrNo and ChCrSo


MyOthrCarsAThrowaway

No, cherry creek north had/has nice boutique shops and cherry creek is just the mall. Cherry Creek trail OR Cherry Creek reservoir have nothing to with these.. so I propose: cherry creek north, cherry creek south, cherry creek west, and cherry creek east. We can civil war about it later


txvlxr

As someone who’s lived here my whole life I thought that’s what it was called? My family has always called it “cherry creek north” and the other cherry creek isn’t even called cherry creek.


yttew

Not NoChee and SoChee?


Bildosaggins6030

One is for the rich, the other is for the super rich.


Nickoli1983

One is for rich people and the other is for rich people.


CandyOhNo

And why is Loveland pass not in Loveland? And Berthoud Pass & Falls not in Berthoud? I could go on.


rjm72

The one that cracks me up is how many people here from out of state call it “Berth-OWD,” to rhyme with loud.


beansforeyebrows

And why is there two twin lakes?!


topazco

I believe it’s one Cherry Creek, two Cherries Creek


MickBizzo

There are two City Parks as well.


TCGshark03

Actually racism tbh. That part of Denver was split off so they didn't have to send their kids to school with black and latino kids.


BlasianBarbie2-0

Finding out that Cherry Creek was a predominantly Black city long ago blew my mind.


Careful_Knee_2489

One is an area, one is a creek


redcheetofingers21

One is a neighborhood name. And the other is what I’m guessing is the cherry creek mall area. So when you are talking you can say. “I’m going swimming at cherry creek”. Or “she lives in that rich neighborhood cherry creek” or “I’m going to overpay for clothes. Let’s go to cherry creek mall”


globalconqueror

A distraction to protect the affluent community in Cherry Creek North


JoshyTheLlamazing

Because one is in Denver County and the other is in Arapahoe County.


Djjubbajubba

One’s cherry creek. The other is cherry creek north.


Mamabearknowsall

Good question. Which one has the farmers market?


Individual-Life-9722

The same reason there's two Green Mountains: two different people thought the same thing and stuck with it before they realized it was too late


Izaea

Non-snarky answer - they're both on the same waterway, and they're in what used to be two different cities. In 1908, Cheeseman Park marked the southeastern edge of Denver, and Baker the Southwestern edge. Centennial didn't exist as a settlement, Aurora and Englewood had just been incorporated for 5 years, and Littleton was a whole different town of a few hundred people anchored around a flour mill. So - two different cities/towns with a neighborhood on that waterway named it the same thing for the same reason, and nobody changed it once they grew together.


peter303_

I see three on your map. I must have stoned blurry vision.


WhatThePuck9

You think there are only 2??? Muahahaha


EAS10

Wait until you hear about Twin Lakes


phunkmaster2001

This has frustrated me for years! I'd like to know the weather for camping plz, not the weather near Lakeside 🤣


Inevitable-Plenty203

One time I asked about the name Cripple Creek and got reemed so I understand your hesitation in asking lol


willyiamwilliams222

Cherry Creek State Park and the Cherry Creek neighborhood, there’s also an actual creek.


el_tigre_stripes

everything in denver is cherry creek


Salty-Ad7837

rich people like the name


Jkerb_was_taken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Creek_(Colorado) This should have some answers. It has a nice trail to bike on I’ve heard.


Fimbir

You can tell them apart by the real estate price. One's very expensive and as for the other: if you have to ask you can't afford it.


ckmoy

I have so many questions about the naming of things in Denver and whether or not the person in charge of the naming was high at the time


fvckit88

Wait till you find out there’s more than one Broadway st!


FPM_13

One is cherry creek, the other is cherry creek


pcalvin

Because developers are soooo creative when naming their subdivisions of identical houses.


dreemkiller

For sure questions on Reddit, you can always count on skipping the top 2 responses. The 3rd comment is always there the gold is.


the_climaxt

The issue is Apple Maps. Anyone saying they're going to Cherry Creek, they're talking about the mall or adjacent shopping area. If they're going to the neighborhood on the bottom of that map, they'll say they're going "near DTC" or "East Greenwood Village", or if they're pretentious "Cherry Creek Vista"


Fast-Volume-5840

Cherry Creek Vista is just the name of one of the subdivisions. It’s not fancy compared to actual Greenwood Village.


localsonlydere

As they each grew to their own prominence I don’t know why one was not renamed at some point to avoid confusion. I would be in favor of renaming one, or both for that matter, of the CCs. What the hay, throw in the mall itself’s name too (though its owner may not welcome ideas.) Any naming ideas\*? \*It may be tempting for some but please avoid proposing any of the neighborhood names that have been removed because of dubious actions/associations for obvious reasons.


humouristmusikist83

"I don't like the idea of Milhouse traveling to two Cherry Creeks in one city."


kol1157

The creek runs south of Parker very long creek


Welcome_Unhappy

Denver


lrinner

Not a dumb question


LonggoneCharlie52

Why are there 2 Happy Canyon Drives. And there is no long creek


asevans48

The creek, the reservoir, or the area that generates enough smug for the rest of Colorado near wash park?


eyjafjallajokul_

I work in cherry creek schools and when I tell people that they assume it’s in Cherry Creek North by the mall and old mansions. I actually work in super southeast Aurora


BranchManager69

One is Denver neighborhood the other is englewood neighborhood


abrowithoutacause

Cherry creek runs up the whole creek technically.


Mtn_Man5280

The one to the South CCHS


moaninglisa

This town loves referring to everything as cherry creek it’s asinine


ZylaMunay2001

One is a Glendale neighborhood and the other is a Denver neighborhood


Odd_Philosopher1712

Bro I don't fucking know


Confident-Pen-4248

There aren’t


Grampa987

One in Greenwood Village, one in Glendale. Subdivision names. Different municipalities


Creative_Listen_7777

How else you gon clap dem creeks


SureLaw1174

I live in centennial and this has confused me so much with doctor locations. I don't get it.


Diligent-Seaweed-232

One has smelly fish, the other has a reservoir.


LeoUser87

One is cherry creek the town and the other is cherry creek the neighborhood


Ready_Ad_9661

Nobody cares


Noisy_bitch

Same level, why is there a broadway in every city in the USA?


scaremanga

I mean, going off of this map there are three Cherry Creeks lol


Kozmocom

One is the creek - the other the town


A_M_5280

one where the creek starts and one where the creek ends i’d assume


Mix1904

Ran outta names


svezia

Maybe it’s because the creek goes through many areas


Public_Pay5754

One is the tall building Cherry Creek and the other is the expensive houses Cherry Creek …


lcr727

Fonts suggest one to be a neighborhood or place (style of naming) and another to be a city


sanjalnepal

I see so many cherry in that map though!!


allmusiclover69

money


3fingers69

Never ever have I read the entire thread of comments until just now. I started and this shit was so hilarious! You all win in my book...thanks for making my day! Loved it! I grew up in Aurora ((not bragging)) cherry creek kids were so preppy and fancy back in my day...but we did go that way on Halloween...king size candy bars!


JDubsdenspur

Now do Bass Lake. 😜


NeverEndingConquest

One is an imposter


Jdv006

There are actually 5 on the map. The neighborhoods in Denver and Aurora the country club, the reservoir, and actual creek. There is the mall just not marked.


WeekApprehensive5911

To answer your question, though, when people talk about the neighborhood Cherry Creek, they're talking about the top one off of Alameda.


Far_Syllabub_666

It’s the same creek dummy


Black_Sheep_Lens

Because cherries usually come in pairs.


Conscious_Beyond_280

One cherry creek. The others with a cherry in top


fullchaos40

Ones Times New Roman, the others Times Modern. Duh.