I-25 I-70 highway name opinions wanted

[SAnd]

I was listening to Michael Brown on KOA last night. A lady newsreader told him that the Intersection of I-25 and I-70 is no longer called the Mousetrap. She claimed that when they rebuilt it the name became obsolete and improper. She stated unequivocally that the Mousetrap no longer exists.

I think she is full of it. It's still the Mousetrap to me.

[Delfuego]

We called the TREX project the "Clusterfuckasaurus"[ROFL1]

[Ronin13]

We called the TREX project the "Clusterfuckasaurus"[ROFL1]

[LOL] Awesome, that works very well.
I've lived in Colorado for 22 of my 26 years on this earth and have never known I-70/25 to be anything but the Mousetrap... although I haven't heard it called that in a while (mainly because I don't listen to the radio). I think no one calls it the mousetrap anymore because after TREX (Delfuego put it best) it's very streamlined now.

[Ah Pook]

Bad & Worse

[Guylee]

I've always just called it "The intersection of I-25 and I-70." Never heard any of this mousetrap crap.

[Delfuego]

How old is Guylee? Its been around since the first day I moved here and just stuck in it way back in '85...

[Stooge]

[Ronin13]

How old is Guylee? Its been around since the first day I moved here and just stuck in it way back in '85...

[Stooge]

Right? And I thought I was one of the younger ones here at 26 -hehe Delfuego I was born the year you moved here, it's okay... geezer [LOL]

[BushMasterBoy]

Lickenpooper is a good name....

[Delfuego]

Lickenpooper is a good name.... Not bad...[Flower]

[CrufflerSteve]

I've always called it the mousetrap when iit really was the truck tipping mess. I was living in Arvada and working in the Tech Center (a much smaller Tech Center) when the truck full of torpedoes tipped over. That was pretty amazing how it shut the city down.

Steve

[funkymonkey1111]

i always thought mousetrap was about as stupid a name as could be put on an interchange. plus, "the narrows" and the jackass on KOA that calls 225 "two and a quarter."

just cutesy crap that isn't helpful. imagine coming through town and some idiot on the radio says "wreck at the mousetrap"--how is that helpful if you're passing through?

[Delfuego]

Ahhhh screw out-of-towners. We need something that sounds Bad-Ass!! So people know to avoid it!

Maybe the Orphan-ater, or the Insurace-raiser...

[TFOGGER]

It was always the Mousetrap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap_%28Denver%29) back in the days when there was the traffic control tower there (it was never actually used by the State Patrol). Then they rebuilt it to be "less confusing" (???) in the 80s. Once again, it is a major choke point, and idjits will cut across 6 lanes of traffic, only to find they took the wrong exit and cut across the gore point and cut more people off...

[Marlin]

I've always called it the mousetrap when iit really was the truck tipping mess. I was living in Arvada and working in the Tech Center (a much smaller Tech Center) when the truck full of torpedoes tipped over. That was pretty amazing how it shut the city down.

Steve

Late 84, early '85..

I was "out of town". My Mother sent the news clipping. Passed it around the barracks. We had a good laugh about it.

[jerrymrc]

It was the "Mousetrap" back in 1980 when I first got to Denver. of course we had "Bronco Bricks" as well.

I do remember my first time through it at 4pm....... Ah, now I get it. [Coffee]

And it will always be the "Mousetrap" to me.[Mad]

[Graves]

It's called the mousetrap, tell the dumb broad to go back to cali.

[BPTactical]

I've always called it the mousetrap when iit really was the truck tipping mess. I was living in Arvada and working in the Tech Center (a much smaller Tech Center) when the truck full of torpedoes tipped over. That was pretty amazing how it shut the city down.

Steve

1984
I remember that day very well, I was driving a tow truck at the time and was the second truck to the scene. Nobody knew at first what it was until a Fire Chief was able to contact the shipper. Once it was known what it was everybody scattered like ants on a hot plate.
IIRC it took about 12 hours to get the fish loaded up on another truck. We then spent about another 4 righting the truck/trailer and getting it out of there. A lot of people don't realize that mishap and a chlorine leak in the rail yard @ 48th and Fox were very instrumental in today's Haz-Mat regulations.
I am native here and believe it or not before they reworked the interchange in '68 or so it was known as "Malfunction Junction". After it was reworked and they built the Traffic Tower there it was known as the "Mousetrap".
They started to redo it in 86 or 87 to its current configuration.
There used to be a second Traffic Tower although much smaller at Denver's "second Mousetrap": 6th Ave and I-25.

TREX was a "Clusterfuckasaurus" and guess what, before too much longer (a couple years) they are going to start on the second phase of TREX, Broadway to 6th Ave. That is why they are redoing the bridge at Alameda.
I can't wait......

[Guylee]

How old is Guylee? Its been around since the first day I moved here and just stuck in it way back in '85...

[Stooge]

Born and raised here, but that's not sayin' much. Maybe I just never paid attention to it...I sure remember T-Rex though...

[Irving]

I haven't heard it referred to as the "Mousetrap" since before I could drive, so I never knew where it was.

Not looking forward to another TREX.

[JohnTRourke]

1984


TREX was a "Clusterfuckasaurus" and guess what, before too much longer (a couple years) they are going to start on the second phase of TREX, Broadway to 6th Ave. That is why they are redoing the bridge at Alameda.
I can't wait......

well, that is where it's fucked up now
fucking gridlock from Santa Fe thru 38th or so.

that and in Thornton. (120th to 84th).

and yes it's the mousetrap, and the valley highway

[Byte Stryke]

it was the mousetrap for some of you youngins and transplants.
and yes, 25 was the valley highway.

[Irving]

I wonder if they'd consider razeing all of downtown Denver and putting a 13 lane highway right through the middle where all the stadiums used to be?

[mcantar18c]

I wonder if they'd consider razeing all of downtown Denver and putting a 13 lane highway right through the middle where all the stadiums used to be?

How bout we just pave over Denver? That'd solve our traffic issues, and a dozen or so other "issues" that come to mind.

Never heard it called the Mousetrap though... then again I'm a youngin compared to you old guys [Coffee]

[Delfuego]

Respect your elders!!! Damn kids on the lawn!!![Rant1]

If you ever want a good scare:

Stop and go look at the underside of the Broadway/Sante Fe/I-25 Bridge.
I was rated the most dangerous and decayed bridge in the state. (4+ years ago!). You will likely never drive over it again.

Ironically, funds were allocated for its' repair/expansion during the TREX build-out. But that money was spent on other things. Then the CDOT head tried to use it as a threat to allocate more dough they could squander[Roll1]

BTW: we should name that Clusterf**k interchange too!

[MED]

If I am traveling in the direction of Denver, I call it the Highway to Hell! [Bang]

[Ronin13]

Talked to my friend the other day (57 year native of Colorado- seen almost everything from the opening of the Eisenhower tunnel to all the major re-do's on the roads in/around Denver) and he came up with a list that only some of the older CO folks would know:
You've been in Colorado a long time when:
-Red Rocks used to be avoided like the plague when the Dead came to town (unless you wanted some good drugs)
-Same as above, except replace Red Rocks with Chief Hosa.
-It took 10 minutes to get from Colorado & Colfax to 6th & Sheridan.
-I-25 was relatively navigable mid-day to rush hour.
-McNick... nuff said.
-You remember when the Broncos first got a young QB named Elway.
-One of the highest points scorers on the Nuggests was named Dekimbe.
-That big french fry looking thing...
-There were miles of almost nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, then between Castle Rock and CO Spgs.
-The Colorado Rockies played hockey.
-Lift lines at the major resorts took maybe 3 min.
-We imported more cars from Detroit than people from California.
-Denver PD was a respectable organization and the ones you wanted to call for help.
-"South Park" was on the way to Buena Vista.
-Your senator was named "Nighthorse."

[OneGuy67]

it was the mousetrap for some of you youngins and transplants.
and yes, 25 was the valley highway.

Don't forget the Boulder Turnpike! And Mile Hi stadium is still Mile Hi stadium (Invesco Field, my butt).

Personally (I know I'll offend somebody), but I really don't care what new people to Colorado think about what we've called some of our landmarks nor do I feel the need to be sensitive to their confusion. Go back to your old place if you don't like it...!

[Ronin13]

Don't forget the Boulder Turnpike! And Mile Hi stadium is still Mile Hi stadium (Invesco Field, my butt).

Personally (I know I'll offend somebody), but I really don't care what new people to Colorado think about what we've called some of our landmarks nor do I feel the need to be sensitive to their confusion. Go back to your old place if you don't like it...!

+100! "Hey we're gonna go to a concert at Invesco, wanna come?"
Me: "WTF is Invesco? Oh, wait you mean Mile Hi!"
And I remember the time when the frightening folk stayed in the PRB... seems lately they're everywhere now!

[JohnTRourke]

Talked to my friend the other day (57 year native of Colorado- seen almost everything from the opening of the Eisenhower tunnel to all the major re-do's on the roads in/around Denver) and he came up with a list that only some of the older CO folks would know:
You've been in Colorado a long time when:
-Red Rocks used to be avoided like the plague when the Dead came to town (unless you wanted some good drugs)
-Same as above, except replace Red Rocks with Chief Hosa.
-It took 10 minutes to get from Colorado & Colfax to 6th & Sheridan.
-I-25 was relatively navigable mid-day to rush hour.
-McNick... nuff said.
-You remember when the Broncos first got a young QB named Elway.
-One of the highest points scorers on the Nuggests was named Dekimbe.
-That big french fry looking thing...
-There were miles of almost nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, then between Castle Rock and CO Spgs.
-The Colorado Rockies played hockey.
-Lift lines at the major resorts took maybe 3 min.
-We imported more cars from Detroit than people from California.
-Denver PD was a respectable organization and the ones you wanted to call for help.
-"South Park" was on the way to Buena Vista.
-Your senator was named "Nighthorse."

are you trying to say that I'm old?????????

I still have a Colorado Rockies (the real one, not this snoozeball pretender game) jersey.

[Guylee]

Talked to my friend the other day (57 year native of Colorado- seen almost everything from the opening of the Eisenhower tunnel to all the major re-do's on the roads in/around Denver) and he came up with a list that only some of the older CO folks would know:
You've been in Colorado a long time when:
-Red Rocks used to be avoided like the plague when the Dead came to town (unless you wanted some good drugs)
-Same as above, except replace Red Rocks with Chief Hosa.
-It took 10 minutes to get from Colorado & Colfax to 6th & Sheridan.
-I-25 was relatively navigable mid-day to rush hour.
-McNick... nuff said.
-You remember when the Broncos first got a young QB named Elway.
-One of the highest points scorers on the Nuggests was named Dekimbe.
-That big french fry looking thing...
-There were miles of almost nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, then between Castle Rock and CO Spgs.
-The Colorado Rockies played hockey.
-Lift lines at the major resorts took maybe 3 min.
-We imported more cars from Detroit than people from California.
-Denver PD was a respectable organization and the ones you wanted to call for help.
-"South Park" was on the way to Buena Vista.
-Your senator was named "Nighthorse."


I still don't know what the hell people are talking about when they ask if I want to go to Six Flags.

[Mazin]

You can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig.

[BlasterBob]

Ironically, funds were allocated for its' repair/expansion during the TREX build-out. But that money was spent on other things.

Ouch! Sorry but it appears some of that money was used to build two nice new bridges on I-25 down in Trinidad. Many thanks for that as I believe normally Trinidad is considered the asshole or at least the arm pit of Colorado so it's damn unusual for ANY money to trickle down to us. Thanks again - we do appreciate the very thoughtful but unusual gesture!![Tooth]

[clublights]

Talked to my friend the other day (57 year native of Colorado- seen almost everything from the opening of the Eisenhower tunnel to all the major re-do's on the roads in/around Denver) and he came up with a list that only some of the older CO folks would know:
You've been in Colorado a long time when:
-Red Rocks used to be avoided like the plague when the Dead came to town (unless you wanted some good drugs)
-Same as above, except replace Red Rocks with Chief Hosa.
-It took 10 minutes to get from Colorado & Colfax to 6th & Sheridan.
-I-25 was relatively navigable mid-day to rush hour.
-McNick... nuff said.
-You remember when the Broncos first got a young QB named Elway.
-One of the highest points scorers on the Nuggests was named Dekimbe.
-That big french fry looking thing...
-There were miles of almost nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, then between Castle Rock and CO Spgs.
-The Colorado Rockies played hockey.
-Lift lines at the major resorts took maybe 3 min.
-We imported more cars from Detroit than people from California.
-Denver PD was a respectable organization and the ones you wanted to call for help.
-"South Park" was on the way to Buena Vista.
-Your senator was named "Nighthorse."

OR when they say the concert is at comfort dental amphitheater..... I get confused then go .. OH you mean Fiddlers Green.

[newracer]

Talked to my friend the other day (57 year native of Colorado- seen almost everything from the opening of the Eisenhower tunnel to all the major re-do's on the roads in/around Denver) and he came up with a list that only some of the older CO folks would know:
You've been in Colorado a long time when:
-Red Rocks used to be avoided like the plague when the Dead came to town (unless you wanted some good drugs)
-Same as above, except replace Red Rocks with Chief Hosa.
-It took 10 minutes to get from Colorado & Colfax to 6th & Sheridan.
-I-25 was relatively navigable mid-day to rush hour.
-McNick... nuff said.
-You remember when the Broncos first got a young QB named Elway.
-One of the highest points scorers on the Nuggests was named Dekimbe.
-That big french fry looking thing...
-There were miles of almost nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, then between Castle Rock and CO Spgs.
-The Colorado Rockies played hockey.
-Lift lines at the major resorts took maybe 3 min.
-We imported more cars from Detroit than people from California.
-Denver PD was a respectable organization and the ones you wanted to call for help.
-"South Park" was on the way to Buena Vista.
-Your senator was named "Nighthorse."

I have not been here that long and I am not very old but I remember most of those.

[Delfuego]

Trinidad is considered the..."Sex change capital of the world".

But it's still in Colorado, so I love it, and your welcome![Neene3]

[Ronin13]

OR when they say the concert is at comfort dental amphitheater..... I get confused then go .. OH you mean Fiddlers Green.

Yes, I still call it Fiddlers Green... it's too confusing with all these sponsor named BS, Comfort Dental, First Bank Center, etc... stop changing names, just put a big sign and leave the name alone!

[JohnTRourke]

Yes, I still call it Fiddlers Green... it's too confusing with all these sponsor named BS, Comfort Dental, First Bank Center, etc... stop changing names, just put a big sign and leave the name alone!

Seriously?
the name of Fiddler's Green is the comfort dental center??????

WTF did that happen? (yeah, i don't go to many concerts)

still, WTF?

[BlasterBob]

"Sex change capital of the world".

But it's still in Colorado, so I love it, and your welcome![Neene3]

Nope, Trinidad, CO is not the sex change capital any more. That performing Doctor (Dr. Marcie Bowers, formerly Mark Bowers) moved out (bag and baggage) to the West Coast.

[jmg8550]

Come on! Some of you younger people need to get out more. I live 60 miles north of Denver and I have heard of all those nicknames listed. I'm only 30.

You all live here, may as well learn a thing or two.

[TFOGGER]

Don't forget the Boulder Turnpike! And Mile Hi stadium is still Mile Hi stadium (Invesco Field, my butt).

Personally (I know I'll offend somebody), but I really don't care what new people to Colorado think about what we've called some of our landmarks nor do I feel the need to be sensitive to their confusion. Go back to your old place if you don't like it...!

Remember the old Spedding Chevrolet commercials: At the Boulder Turnpike and the Valley Highwayyyyy....

[LOL]

More for the longtime residents and natives:

Big Mac
The Rainbow Music Hall

[Byte Stryke]

are you trying to say that I'm old?????????

I still have a Colorado Rockies (the real one, not this snoozeball pretender game) jersey.


we used to go watch the Denver Bears play

[clublights]

Seriously?
the name of Fiddler's Green is the comfort dental center??????

WTF did that happen? (yeah, i don't go to many concerts)

still, WTF?

IT was Coors Amphitheater for a year or two there also ...

[BPTactical]

Colorado Rocky Hockey- "Crazy George" and his drum! Lanny MacDonald!
5$ admission + 2$ on "Nickle Beer Night" = hellacious hangover!

[JohnTRourke]

Colorado Rocky Hockey- "Crazy George" and his drum! Lanny MacDonald!
5$ admission + 2$ on "Nickle Beer Night" = hellacious hangover!



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Ok, out of Denver, who remembers waiting in lines for hours as they worked on Glenwood Canyon and the two lane little road that ran right along the river???

and the ski area (I forget the name) right at the top of Floyd Hill?

[TFOGGER]

and the ski area (I forget the name) right at the top of Floyd Hill?

Arapahoe East...killed by drought in the late 70s

[newracer]

[IMG]Ok, out of Denver, who remembers waiting in lines for hours as they worked on Glenwood Canyon and the two lane little road that ran right along the river???


Sat in that line a couple of times going to Lake Powell.

[MED]

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Ok, out of Denver, who remembers waiting in lines for hours as they worked on Glenwood Canyon and the two lane little road that ran right along the river???

and the ski area (I forget the name) right at the top of Floyd Hill?

I remember this road before construction started. During the early summer, it would often flood from the river swelling.

[Delfuego]

Good to see some old-time hockey fans here!!!

[Hoosier]

Ok, out of Denver, who remembers waiting in lines for hours as they worked on Glenwood Canyon and the two lane little road that ran right along the river???

My grandfather was an engineer for CDOT (it was called something else back then) who worked on the I-70 Glenwood Canyon and Eisenhower Tunnel projects. I've been down that stretch of I-70 a few years ago, it's like the highway flies over the smaller road near the river right?

H.

[MED]

My grandfather was an engineer for CDOT (it was called something else back then) who worked on the I-70 Glenwood Canyon and Eisenhower Tunnel projects. I've been down that stretch of I-70 a few years ago, it's like the highway flies over the smaller road near the river right?

H.

Most of the original road is gone. There are some places that still exist as an access road.