INDIAN HILLS

• In 1992, the Colorado Department of Transportation widened U.S. 285 and built the yover from Parmalee Gulch Road to U.S. 285. Residents called that a game-changer because Evergreen residents could use it as a shortcut.

Other memories

Longtime residents said some of the summer cabins they bought and turned into year-round homes needed a lot of work.

Myrna Newman moved into one of the summer cabins in 1958, calling it “pretty rough.” e family slept on the oor in front of a heater in the living room until insulation was added.

Sandy and Mike Patterson moved to Indian Hills in 1982, buying a summer cabin that was so small that most of their belongings wound up on the porch. e cabin had no insulation, so Sandy hung out at the Evergreen library to stay warm during the winter that rst year.

“Mike joining the Indian Hills Fire Department in 1983 opened up the town for us,” Sandy said.

Residents said kids could wander all over, sometimes visiting a mica mine, and Indian Hills had a trailer park and a dance hall.

Sue Ryplewski, who moved to Indian Hills in 2013, said she was hiking in Mount Falcon Park and noticed how magical both the park and the drive up the canyon were. In addition to the beautiful landscape and the wildlife, she said the people also make it special.

She said it was peaceful to go for a hike out your back door, and the Indian Hills Fire Department provides a great opportunity for people to meet each other and get involved.

Samuelson was in the Canyon Courier shortly after moving to Indian Hills. She was driving down the road when a neighbor stopped her to say her cat, Gidget, was on the roof of the car.

“I don’t know how she held on,” Samuelson said, “and you bet that

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The Indian Hills Centennial Celebration will be Aug. 18-20. On Friday, starting at 6 p.m., there will be a movie and live music at Arrowhead Park with food for sale. From noon-4 p.m. Saturday will be the community center open house with local history speakers, a building plaque dedication and a time capsule sealing. From 2-6 p.m. Sunday will be a barbecue at the community center.

story made the paper.” e downside to Indian Hills, residents say, is a similar complaint heard throughout the foothills: the amount of tra c moving through the town. e residents said while they love it here, they don’t want everyone else to discover it. e residents referred to a bumper sticker: “Indian Hills: Pretending not to be a Denver suburb since 1923.”

“We don’t want to be discovered or ‘on the map,’” Matson said.

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