Elitch Gardens asked the city to remove an encampment of about fifty migrants outside park gates before opening in April.
A migrant encampment outside Elitch Gardens has grown from fifteen people to upwards of sixty during the past two months., a migrant encampment has grown for the past two months. Located just outside the park's gates near Castaway Creek and the Splashdown water slide, the area has offered stability for the migrants, who came to Denver without permission to work and no money to rent homes.
"There aren't a lot of neighbors, there isn't a lot of stuff," he says."The only reason they're sweeping us is because they're opening this park. Otherwise, this was all a perfect location" According to the notices posted by the city outside the encampment, the city plans to permanently close down several blocks to camping around Elitch Gardens. The designated area stretches from Speer Boulevard along Elitch Circle and the nearby train tracks.
Many of the migrants at the encampment came to Denver months ago and have timed out of their length-of-stay at shelters, Pioltelli notes. Ewing says he's"fairly certain" that all the migrants at the encampment have timed out of a city shelter. "They go out and clean windows. They go searching because they have to go across town to find work," he says."It's not easy because they're not alone. They have kids. All of us here have a family."
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