Area Attractions

• The Black American West Museum
• Buffalo Bill's Grave & Museum
• Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center
• The Children's Museum of Denver
• The Colorado History Museum
• Colorado Ocean Journey
• The Colorado State Capitol
• The Coors Brewery
• Denver Art Museum
• The Denver Botanic Gardens
• The Denver Museum of Nature & Science
• The Denver Zoo
• Prehistoric Journey
• Six Flags Elitch Gardens Theme Park
• The Molly Brown House
• Red Rocks Amphitheatre
• Tiny Town
• The U.S. Mint

Located on the western edge of the Great Plains, Denver is the largest city in the American Rocky Mountain region. The city is a mile high (over a mile, actually) and is a clean, young and green city with dozens of tree-lined boulevards. The city has the largest park system in the nation, with 205 parks inside city limits and 20,000 acres of parks in the nearby mountains. Moreover, the area is rewarded with sunny skies nearly 300 days a year, which squashes any myths of it being a land of harsh weather.

Unlike some western cities, Denver has a central downtown area. A mile-long pedestrian mall cuts through the heart of downtown Denver and is surrounded by a series of parks and plazas that soften the towering skyscrapers and provide viewpoints from which to see and appreciate the modern architecture. Lower Downtown (called "LoDo" by locals) is on the northern edge of downtown Denver and offers one of the nation's greatest concentrations of Victorian buildings and warehouses, many of which have been refurbished to house restaurants, art galleries, offices, shops and residential units.