Tips on navigating the Denver Metro area

[hollohas]

You guys would have been lost back in my small town in New England. All the streets were named-no numerical anythings. When I moved out here my first thought was "why don't they do this everywhere ?"

My extended family is in Maynard, MA. It's like all the roads follow old deer trials or something.

[patrick0685]

ya back in tennessee its not like this, streets all over the play

[BPTactical]

My extended family is in Maynard, MA. It's like all the roads follow old deer trials or something.

A lot of this is due to the way properties are divided and geography. East of the Mississippi the majority of land tracts are surveyed by what is known as "Metes and Bounds" which use geographical points such as a stone wall or rivers and the descriptions are something else to read such as: "From the large rock bounding along the river upstream to the bridge thence proceeding south to the old stone wall thence returning to the large rock next to the river".
That is why the roads are goofy, they tend to follow property lines.
West of the Mississippi land tracts are generally surveyed on a NS-EW grid system and again, the majority of roads follow property and section lines. You can really pick up on it in rural areas.