Southeast Denver Park District
Babi Yar Park
Babi-Yar Park is of a semi-xeriscape design with several bluegrass pockets at the Amphitheater and the Grove of Remembrance. A path system in the shape of the Star of David takes you from the Amphitheater to the Grove of Remembrance and then to the Box Car Bridge that goes over a gulch on the West side of the park. These three features are centered on three of the points of the Star of David path. The Amphitheater is bermed bluegrass with a flat granite tile and concrete centerpiece with engraved names of contribitors to the Babi Yar Park Project. The Grove of Remembrance contains 100 Linden trees planted in rows with a granite water feature at the center point. The path then takes you to the Box Car Bridge to the West of the park. The park includes many symbolic features and descriptive granite monuments and includes a granite speaker box at the entrance which gives a historical look at the carnage that tood place in Europe during the Nazi Regime.In 1970, Denver City Council dedicated Babi-Yar Park. "--IN MEMORIAM--to the two hundred thousand victims who died. Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR--September 29, 1941-November 6, 1943. The majority Jews with Ukrainians and others." The Grove of Remembrance, an amphitheater, and other numerous symbolic features are described by the park's "talking" monument.
The Park is also one of the selected parks for the Goat Herding efforts in an effort to control noxious weeds in a natural way.
Babi-Yar Park is located in southeast Denver at Havana St. and Parker Road.