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Join us Saturday, August 9 from 11 am - 2 pm for our community open house!

We'll have free food and fun for the entire family! Join us for:

• Face painting by Rachel's Creations
• Taco bar
• Dog adoption event with RezDawg Rescue
• Car seat inspections by Jeffco Human Services (RSVP required, please make an appointment)
• Balance and fall risk assessment by CommonSpirit Health
• Blood pressure checks by our volunteer EMTs and paramedics
• Ambulance rides
• And more!

Meet your local first responders, take a ride in the ambulance, and enjoy an afternoon of free fun with Highland! We'll see you on August 9 at our station located at 317 S Lookout Mountain Rd, Golden, CO 80401.

Highland Rescue Team Ambulance District is located in the foothills of Denver. We proudly serve as the 911 ambulance agency for Genesee, Lookout Mountain, and Idledale. Additionally, we cover Interstate 70 from the Morrison Exit (259) to just past the Evergreen exit at mile marker 251. Our District is also home to five separate open space areas of Jefferson County and Denver Mountain Parks offering hiking, mountain biking and running trails.

The department consists has six paid employees and 50 volunteer EMTs and paramedics that provide 24/7 medical coverage to the district. Our station, located at highway 40 and Lookout Mountain, houses three advanced life support ambulances and one rescue vehicle,  providing a central location for responding to our 33.5 square mile district. Highland Rescue's calls range from residential medical calls to multi-car accidents on I-70. We respond to backcountry calls for hikers off our many trail systems and provide wildland fire medical response for Genesee Fire Protection District and Foothills Fire Protection District. Each year, we respond to approximately 800 calls.

You can call or text the district at 303-526-9571. If you text the district, we save your first and last name and your phone number to reply to your text message. We will never share your information with a third party and will only respond to your text messages. Download a pdf version of our full policy at the following link:

SMS Text Messaging Privacy Policy pdf