When you come for house hunting stop at REI, Performance, Bicycle Village or a LBS and pick up a Denver bicycle map published by Denver Bicycle Touring Club(DBTC). When I moved here almost 5 yrs ago I found it very helpful.
I had Morrison and Golden in mind when I was house hunting. I ended up in SE Lakewood just above the Bear Creek valley/ trail. That has me between the massive open space to the West and shopping to the east (Wadsworth has at least 2 of every retail shop known to mankind)