Union Station (Denver) - Definition and Overview

Union Station is Denver, Colorado, USA's historic train station at 17th and Wynkoop in Denver's LoDo district. The station first opened in 1881[1] (http://www.lodo.org/walking_tour/unionstationareahtm.htm). After the original structure was destroyed by fire in 1894 it was rebuilt in Beaux-arts style and still serves passenger traffic including:

• Amtrak's California Zephyr
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's Ski Train, providing service between Denver and the Winter Park Ski Resort.

Under a public/private consortium, the station and the surrounding 19.5 acres (79,000 m²) will soon be the hub of Denver's new FasTracks rail network, under the Regional Transportation District's master plan for the station site, officially known as the Denver Union Terminal. Eight teams of prominent architects, developers and engineers competed in 2002 for the massive contract to redevelop Denver Union Station into a transit-oriented retail, office and residential complex, with a budget in the range of $900 million.

No architect is credited in any of the official information on the station.

See also

List of Union Stations

External link

• Denver Union station master plan (http://www.denverunionstation.org/default.asp)
• Ski Train (http://www.skitrain.com) (includes Flash content on home page which makes sound; however site is fully usable without Flash)