Denver Safe-Camping Site Moving to Montbello Neighborhood

A safe-camping site in the Lincoln Park neighborhood will be moving out by year’s end and going to Montbello, the Colorado Village Collaborative and Denver Health just announced.

“We are so grateful to the leadership and support of Denver Health for opening its campus to our work and supporting us as we served so many people,” says Shay-La Romney, the CVC’s interim CEO.

Since last November, the safe-camping site, which provides individual tents, on-site bathrooms and connections to services for people experiencing homelessness, has been located on a dirt parking lot at 780 Elati Street owned by Denver Health. Unlike Denver’s two other current safe-camping sites, this one catered to Native American individuals.

The CVC had a one-year lease for the lot with Denver Health, crafted to…