Lone Tree Brewing to run beer garden at High Note Park

Lone Tree Brewing is making its next move inside a city park, not a strip mall or another stand-alone taproom. The brewery will operate the beer garden at High Note Park, where the plan is to use a shipping container, long communal benches and a covered open-air bar pouring Lone Tree beers on draft alongside a light menu and other beverage options.

That setup matters because High Note Park is not being pitched as a simple greenspace. The City of Lone Tree says the 80-acre project will become the city’s largest park once complete and its first and only regional park, with phase one slated to open in late summer 2027. The first phase carries a price tag of roughly $31 million, backed by $13 million from South Suburban Park and Recreation District, $9 million from the City of Lone Tree, $7.5 million from Douglas County, $1 million from the Southeast Public Improvement Metropolitan District and $580,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado.

Phase one is packed with actual park traffic, not just beer-service foot traffic: two lit synthetic multipurpose fields, a playground, the Happy Canyon Trail, community gathering spaces, a play water feature, a 200-seat beer garden, a food truck area, a dog park and a parking lot. The city says the park was part of the vision residents approved when the land was annexed in 2000, which gives the project a long runway that most brewery buildouts never get.

For Lone Tree Brewing, the move deepens a relationship that has been in place since before the brewery opened. Co-founder and director of brewhouse operations Jerry Siote said the partnership with the city has already included special releases and multiple events over the years. The brewery, which opened in 2011 as the first brewery in Lone Tree, now operates two tasting rooms, one near Park Meadows Mall and another in Parker, which opened in 2024.

That gives Lone Tree Brewing three public-facing points of contact once High Note Park comes online, and the park garden is the most unusual of the bunch. It is family-friendly, dog-friendly and tied to a public recreation project that the city says will sit along Happy Canyon Creek near Interstate 25 and RidgeGate Parkway. For suburban breweries looking for growth without another expensive taproom build, this is the kind of calculated bet that could become more common: put the beer inside the civic destination and let the park do the rest.