Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge

Pomona High School is a public secondary school operated by Jefferson County School District R-1 in Arvada, Colorado, United States.

Hackberry Hill is a hill in northeast Arvada, Colorado between the Ralston Creek and Little Dry Creek watersheds.

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is a nonprofit, multi-use cultural facility in Arvada, Colorado, United States, which opened in 1976. The Arvada Center facility comprises the Arvada History Museum, three theatres, 10,000 square feet of art galleries, music, dance, and theatre rehearsal rooms, classrooms, a conference center, and an amphitheater.

Standley Lake is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) reservoir located in Westminster, Colorado. While originally constructed to provide water for the agricultural irrigation of the surrounding region northwest of Denver, it now serves primarily as the municipal water supply for the cities of Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton. The lake is also used for recreation, and is the prominent feature of the surrounding 3,000-acre (12 km2) Standley Lake Regional Park. The reservoir has a maximum capacity of approximately 42,000 acre-feet (52,000,000 m3) and maximum depth of 96 feet (29 m). Most of the reservoir's water is transported over 16 miles (26 km) from Clear Creek to the south by way of the Church Ditch, Farmer's Highline Canal and Croke Canal. It also receives water from Coal Creek by way of the Kinnear Ditch and from Woman Creek.The lake is owned by the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company (FRICO) while the surrounding park and the recreational use of the lake are managed by the City of Westminster.

Arvada High School is a public secondary school operated by Jefferson County School District R-1 in Arvada, Colorado, United States.

Arvada West High School, nicknamed A-West, is a public secondary school in Arvada, Colorado, United States. Opened in 1963, it is one of four high schools in Arvada. It is part of the Jefferson County School District.

This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City of Arvada, Colorado, United States.

Jefferson Academy Charter School or JA is a K-12 charter school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The K-6 campus is located at 9955 Yarrow Street, Broomfield, Colorado 80021 and the 7–12 campus is located at 11251 Reed Way Broomfield, Colorado 80020.

The Apex Park and Recreation District is a park and recreation district located in the northeastern portion of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Apex encompasses the portion of City of Arvada and adjacent areas that are located within Jefferson County. The district serves a population of more than 100,000. The district is a resource for all types of athletic activities, events, classes, and family entertainment for those who live in the encompassing neighborhoods, as well as visitors from across the metro area and beyond. With a few exceptions, the Apex Park and Recreation District boundaries are Sheridan Boulevard on the east, Clear Creek and 52nd Avenue on the south, Highway 93 on the west and the Boulder/Broomfield county line on the north. Apex Park and Recreation District is managed by an executive director and a five-member elected board of directors. Directors serve four-year terms with elections held every two years in May. While the Apex Park and Recreation District works collaboratively with other entities, it is a separate agency not connected to other government agencies.

Standley Lake High School is a public secondary school operated by Jefferson County School District R-1 in Westminster, Colorado, United States. The school is located near 104th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard and is named for nearby Standley Lake. The high school opened in 1988 and a new addition to the southeast corner was opened in 2002. This school has been an I.B. (International Baccalaureate) school since 2012. Area rivalries include Pomona High School and Ralston Valley High School in Arvada and Broomfield High School in Broomfield. The school's male athletic teams include baseball, basketball, football, swimming/diving, cross country, soccer, golf, wrestling, hockey, track, and tennis. Female athletic teams include basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball. In 2007, after the shootings at Virginia Tech, students at Standley Lake founded an event called Day Without Hate. They asked their classmates to wear white in order to show a commitment and trust in each other to make their school a safer place. The day was an overwhelming success. Since then, over 100,000 students across Colorado and the United States take part in Day Without Hate to show that they will not tolerate violence or hate, and they will reach out to friends and acquaintances and say, "We're all in this together." In 2013, PeaceJam, a non-profit organization that connects students with Nobel Peace Laureates, awarded Standley Lake its annual Global Call to Action Hero Award for the school's efforts around Day Without Hate. Nobel Laureate Betty Williams visited the school to give the prize to the students.The school is recognized for its award-winning extra-curricular programs. The FCCLA has earned the school accolades at the state and national level. The school's newsmagazine, The Lake, has won numerous state and national awards from the Colorado High School Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. The school has a long running annual German exchange program where German students stay with American families for one month in May and American students stay with the German families for one month typically in June or July. This program is one of the oldest continuously functioning high school level German exchange programs in the state of Colorado. For more than twenty years the program's partner town was Deggendorf, Bavaria, however it is now Murnau, Bavaria. On January 27, 2014, a sophomore named Vincent Nett attempted suicide by setting himself on fire in the school's cafeteria. Nett doused himself in gasoline immediately prior to the act. The event was directly witnessed by at least sixty fellow students. A faculty member was able to douse the blaze with a fire extinguisher, suffering minor injuries from breaking the glass in order to obtain it. No students were injured, and it was soon determined by police that Nett had no intentions of hurting anyone but himself. Nett suffered burns to 80% of his body in the blaze. He succumbed to his injuries just before 5pm on February 9, 2014.

Olde Town Arvada is a 15.1-acre (6.1 ha) historic district in Arvada, Colorado bounded by Ralston Road, Teller Road, Grandview Avenue and Yukon Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The listing included 42 contributing buildings. Its 1998 NRHP nomination stated:The district is characterized by a variety of building types, including some of the most significant historic residences in the city, the largest concentration of historic business buildings in the city, the oldest Grange hall in the state, one of the few historic industrial facilities established in Arvada, and three substantial historic churches. Many of the buildings within the district were designed to fulfill more than onex function, such as business blocks which had commercial space on the ground floor and living quarters or community halls on the upper floor. This combination of building functions within the downtown area typified Arvada's early history. Diversity of function led to the variety of construction materials, styles, landscaping, and setbacks within the district. It includes the A.L. Davis Block building (1916), at 5600 Wadsworth Boulevard (a garage and Dodge and Chevrolet dealership, built of red brick, later expanded to absorb the 1882 school building that was to its north), and the First National Bank of Arvada (1903), at 7530 Grandview Avenue. It is home to many local restaurants, breweries, taverns, and shops. The RTD commuter rail G-Line has a stop in Olde Town.

Ralston Valley High School (RVHS or RV) is a comprehensive, four-year public high school in Arvada, a northwest suburb of Denver, Colorado. Opened in 2000, its enrollment is around 1800 students. Ralston Valley High School is an eight-time recipient of an "Excellent" rating by the Colorado Department of Education.