Denver, Colorado: Big Sun Dial
There are bigger ones, but maybe none as obsessively accurate as this one. It's been keeping time for comparatively small humans since 1966.
Cramner Park
- Address:
- 162 Belo Horizonte Pkwy, Denver, CO
- Directions:
- Cramner Park. East side of the city. From CO-2/Colorado Blvd turn east at the stoplight onto 3rd Ave. You'll soon see the Park on the right. Turn at the entrance sign; the road will take you right to the sundial, on the right.
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The six-foot-high sun dial is made from quartzite stone. There's a lot of science and math and whatnot happening here. So much so that it is said that you can actually set your watch by the shadow being cast. The top is for summer and the underside is for winter. The original sun dial was installed in 1941 but needed to be replaced after being blown to bits by dynamite in 1965. This one began keeping time on the Spring Equinox 1966.
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