This suburb of Denver, the historic City of Golden is a Home Rule Municipality located at the Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The name Golden came from a notable person, Thomas L. Golden. This city is north of I-70 and included in the Denver metropolitan area. Chocolate lovers should also note that this is the place where Jolly Rancher, a candy bought out by the Hershey Foods Corporation was born.

It is one of the gold rush towns, and the presence of gold fields made it a center of economic industry. The biggest site brewery, the Coors Brewery is found here as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. With a population of about 18,000 people businesses flourish.

Golden adopted a home rule municipality form of statutory government in Colorado. Its government is a city council/city manager type of leadership. Forms of readable media published in Golden are the Golden Transcript which started in 1866 and The Oredigger.

Airports include the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and the Denver International Airport in northeastern Denver.