When you’re exploring round Mount Blue Sky in Clear Creek County on the Evergreen facet, you would possibly discover a number of modifications to the highway indicators alongside the way in which up. Very similar to the change from Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, roads containing a slur in opposition to Native American ladies have been eliminated in lieu of non-problematic names.
The three modifications are as follows:
1. Pine Valley Street will change Outdated Squaw Move Street
2. Blue Sky Path will change Little Squaw Move Street
3. Raven Ridge Street will change Squaw Mountain Path
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Clear Creek County mentioned the highway identify modifications had been a mixed effort between the Mapping Division and the Street and Bridge staff, together with a renaming committee. A survey was despatched to neighbors asking for his or her enter on what the names must be modified to, as long as they did change altogether.
When you can nonetheless discover some non-county road signage displaying the previous names, the official county highway indicators have been modified at this level, and Clear Creek County mentioned it’s working to get the names adjusted on-line for locations like Google Maps and Waze.
Cassie Childers, who now lives on Pine Valley Street, mentioned she was glad to see the identify change from the slur to one thing else.
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“The one factor I am sad about is having to redo my automotive registration and all of that,” Childers mentioned, laughing. “That is the toughest half for us.”
“It is a bit of a headache,” County Spokesperson Megan Hiler mentioned. “Quite a bit goes into altering your deal with identify… however we would like Clear Creek County to be welcoming to everybody and we actually saved that in thoughts.”
The county believes it has eliminated the final remaining indicators with the slur concerned.