Drivers should prepare themselves to make detours this week as they travel around Cherry Creek Parkway in Denver.
The Monaco Parkway bridge will be closed for about three days as the city installs new girders as part of their bridge replacement project. Monaco Parkway will be closed in both directions between Florida Avenue and Mississippi Avenue from Monday, Feb. 2 to Wednesday, Feb. 4. Crews will be on scene from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Crews are working on the bridge replacement and rehabilitation project over Cherry Creek. This is part of a project that started in Oct 2024. This project will remove the current 60-year-old bridge over Cherry Creek and replace it with a new bridge structure. This is phase two of the project.
During this time, there will be closures and detours in place. This includes:
- Southbound Mississippi Avenue traffic will go east on Leetsdale Drive to Quebec Street, then turn south and continue to Evans Avenue then turn west to rejoin southbound Monaco Parkway.
- Northbound Mississippi Avenue traffic will go east on Evans Avenue to Quebec Street, then turn north and continue to Leetsdale Drive, then turn west to rejoin northbound Monaco Parkway.
- Local driveways along Monaco Parkway will remain accessible during the closures. Right turn access from N. Cherry Creek Drive, east of Monaco Parkway, onto northbound Monaco Parkway will remain open during the closures.
- There will be no Monaco Parkway access to/from S. Cherry Creek Drive during the closures; access to/from the Cook Park Recreation Center will be maintained on S. Cherry Creek Drive via Quebec Street only.
The crosswalks on the north and south sides of the bridge across Monaco Parkway are closed. Use signalized intersections north (Mississippi Avenue) and south (Florida Avenue) to safely cross Monaco Parkway…