The park adjacent to the Colorado Capitol will reopen perhaps as early as next week, city officials say, minus two dead trees that had housed many of the rats infesting the area. Denver Department of Public Health and Environment closed the state-owned area, officially called Lincoln Park, in mid-January amid increasing reports of human and animal waste, drug paraphernalia, food waste and fears that a worsening rat infestation could spread directly across Broadway to Civic Center. “It was pretty severe.