For the past 25 years around Denver’s south metro area, Mike Smith has watched homes, offices and commercial centers rise in open spaces he once viewed from the seat of his bike.
But then there’s what he calls “the heart of Lone Tree.”
To catch the sun rise or set or to ease the stress of a day, Smith has ridden the East/West Regional Trail up to where it ascends a mesa and meanders around bluffs overlooking the distant mountains and plains that he remembers more open not so long ago. It is that kind of open, mesa top experience that drew Smith and his family to Lone Tree…