Distances from Parker, CO to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Parker, CO to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Parker, CO sits in Colorado, on Denver time, at 39.52° north and 104.76° west. The nearest place of any size is Centennial, CO, about 10 miles away — roughly 20 min of driving. 20 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 36 are within three hours' driving of Parker, CO and 47 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Aurora, CO, about 18 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Parker, CO
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Parker, CO. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 17 of 36 — lies to the northwest, with 10 to the north. Only 1 sit to the southwest. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
34 of those places are in Colorado and 2 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Phoenix, AZ is about 677 miles out, roughly 10 hr 45 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 1,888 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Parker, CO, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Parker, CO
Major cities from Parker, CO
- Phoenix, AZ 677 mi · 10 hr 45 min
- San Antonio, TX 908 mi · 14 hr 25 min
- Los Angeles, CA 969 mi · 15 hr 22 min
- Houston, TX 996 mi · 15 hr 49 min
- Chicago, IL 1055 mi · 16 hr 45 min
- Philadelphia, PA 1816 mi · 28 hr 50 min
- New York City, NY 1878 mi · 29 hr 48 min
- Manhattan, NY 1880 mi · 29 hr 50 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1882 mi · 29 hr 52 min
- Queens, NY 1888 mi · 29 hr 58 min