Denver road closures: permits fall 15% for the week ahead

The city has 1,088 street stretches under occupancy permits between Saturday, October 10 and Friday, October 16, 2026, down 15.1% on the week before and 34.5% on this week last year. The one to plan around is Heritage Harvest at Larimer Square, which holds Larimer Street between 15th and 14th Streets from Saturday to Monday. A permit is permission to close a street, not proof it is closed. Source: City and County of Denver street occupancy permits.

Heritage Harvest at Larimer Square occupies Larimer Street from 15th Street to 14th Street as a full road closure from October 10 to October 12, 2026, according to the Downtown Construction page. The South Broadway Halloween parade runs on Saturday, October 17, according to freeindenver.com, one day after this permit window ends. Detour permits total 23, against 29 the week before.

Of 136 full street and alley closure stretches in effect, 76 begin this week. The earliest are listed here in date order, with more to come; each shows the street, the stretch, the dates and the purpose as the record prints them.

Work can start late, end early or be cancelled, and emergency closures have no permit.

E Yale Ave leads with 20 permitted stretches, followed by S Lowell Blvd (16), E Dartmouth Ave and S University Blvd (15 each), E Buchtel Blvd (14) and W 10th Ave (13). A count of stretches is not a length of time or a number of blocked lanes.

Lane closures on main streets (277) and sidewalk closures (258) are the most common kinds, with parking lane closures down to 197 from 272. Full closures are 136, partial closures 148 and bike lane closures 49, level with last week.

By purpose, ROW Construction (212) and Utility (184) lead. Road and alley repair is up to 67 from 45, and street cuts for water are down to 64 from 93.

Compare next week's totals with this week's 1,088 to see whether activity picks up as the Larimer and South Broadway events pass. For a closure today, check the Denver construction map.

The figures are street occupancy permits in the City and County of Denver's open data, pulled October 10, 2026 and covering Saturday, October 10 to Friday, October 16. These are permissions to occupy part of a street, alley, sidewalk, parking lane or bike lane between two dates, not closures observed. Permits with an end date more than a year away are open-ended placeholders and are not counted. Closures on state highways and interstates, and on streets outside Denver, are not in this record. Counts are stretches, not permits; a single permit can cover several stretches.

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