Coors Field: pitchers hate it, batters love it. That’s because the home of the Colorado Rockies is Major League Baseball’s highest-altitude ball field, a fact that can change the game for the better or for the worse depending on whether you’re in the batter’s box or on the pitcher’s mound. A…
Upwards of 30 feet above the ground, the gangway at Arkins Promenade is a portal to a different perspective on Denver. There's the downtown skyline a mile to the south, the Rockies to the west and cranes dotting the River North Art District (RiNo) to the east. Cars line up on the 38th Street bridge…
One of the most historic parks in the country, Lakeside Amusement Park, is half attraction, half museum of mechanical, thrill-generating Americana. Its creators were inspired by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair — where the fairgrounds were nicknamed "White…
What does one do with an empty, one-acre parking garage rooftop? If you’re Denver Botanic Gardens, you cover it, edge to edge, in a living, thriving garden (naturally). In so doing, Denver Botanic Gardens established the Mordecai Children’s Garden in 2010 — one of Denver’s first green rooftops. It…
It’s no secret that Denver is a terrific base camp for ski and snowboard adventures in the nearby mountains. What may come as a surprise is the fact that the Mile High City has the only urban snowsports terrain park in the United States. Ruby Hill Rail Yard typically remains open from late January…
Up in the foothills, only 20 minutes from Denver, there's a famous natural landmark where dinosaurs have a story to tell. It’s the perfect family-friendly excursion where learning is fun During the Cretaceous Period, or 145 million to 66 million years ago, Denver was beachfront property. Back then…
“The train is the only way to go,” says Rosie Thibodeaux, traveling home after exploring Denver for three days with her sister and her niece. The trio flew into Denver International Airport and are now returning home to Modesto, California, on Amtrak’s California Zephyr. The full train route runs…
An otherwise unassuming storefront on South Broadway in Denver is a portal into another world. A little more than a mile before the city gives way to the suburbs, the door to Spectra Art Space doubles as a launchpad for a psychedelic journey into a labyrinthine indoor/outdoor environment, with…
Vance Kirkland’s studio at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in the Golden Triangle Creative District offers a lens into the unique painting methods of one of Colorado’s most illustrious artists. In his old studio—which was relocated about a half-mile west from its original site at Pearl…
What happens when a top Indigenous ceramic artist has the freedom and space to design a sculpture for a leading museum? The result is “Mud Woman Rolls On.” Larger than life, this evocative piece greets visitors to the gallery of Indigenous Arts of North America at Denver Art Museum. “Mud Woman Rolls…
