Tens of thousands, including Chatfield State Park, without power across metro Denver as winter storm takes toll

Nearly 82,000 people throughout metro Denver and the Front Range lost power Thursday after a winter storm dumped heavy, wet snow across Colorado, causing hundreds of outages, Xcel Energy said.

As of 7:45 p.m., Xcel reported 575 outages were still impacting 13,688 customers, ranging from Boulder to Castle Rock and Aurora to Idaho Springs.

Outages impacted close to 82,000 customers on Thursday, Xcel officials said in a news release. Crews had restored power to nearly 43,000 customers by Thursday afternoon.

Nearly 345 crew members are working to restore power to impacted customers, according to the company.

As of 7:45 p.m., there are 2,495 customers without power in Centennial, 2,420 customers in Lakewood, 1,755 customers in Littleton, 1,456 in Boulder and 1,290 in Denver.

Chatfield State Park south of Littleton closed due to a power outage with no estimated time of reopening, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Its off-leash dog park is also closed.

More information is available through Xcel Energy’s outage map.

To report an outage, customers can:

Customers can check the status of their electric outage by texting STAT to 98936.

A hefty snowstorm hit Colorado overnight Wednesday, dropping more than 2 feet of snow in some of the Front Range foothills and up to 10 inches across metro Denver on Thursday morning. The storm has snarled traffic, disrupted flights and canceled and delayed schools.

The storm is expected to drop more than a foot of snow over most of Denver and more than 4 feet of snow in some of the foothills and mountains by Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder.