To help make the holiday season a little brighter for those in need and to celebrate the 125 th milestone anniversaries of two Denver icons, the Brown Palace Hotel and Spa and the Denver Post, are joining forces for an incredible Champagne Cascade…
Where’s the most haunted place to spend Halloween in Denver? Well, it just might be Cheesman Park. Yes, the lovely tree-lined Cheesman Park with the Pavilion, flower gardens and beautiful views of the mountains. That’s because Cheesman Park has something else besides lawns and trees and bike paths…
Learn how to make money, literally. Denver has one of two U.S. Mint facilities in the country that offers free tours. But a common question is, what’s it doing here? The Colorado gold rush that began in 1858 brought thousands of miners and settlers to the territory, resulting in the founding of…
There’s no shortage of great coffee spots in The Mile High City. But there’s only one that serves up the good stuff out of a vintage Airstream trailer. Kachina Southwestern Grill’s Airstream is already a popular fixture in the Dairy Block, a new downtown micro-district that opened this spring along…
With five galleries of ever-changing exhibits, a library and a rooftop café overlooking downtown, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is well worth the visit for any art lover. But even if you haven’t been inside yet (and you should definitely…
Only seven Galloping Goose railcars were ever made. These crazy rail contraptions were put together in the 1930s and carried mail and passengers over Colorado’s Lizard Head Pass until the 1950s. Basically, they were 1920s Pierce-Arrow limousines put…
Who’s buried in Buffalo Bill’s grave? It sounds like a trick question. However, there are some people up in Cody, Wyo., who would have you believe that the body resting in the beautiful gravesite on top of Lookout Mountain, high above the town of Golden, Colo., doesn’t really belong to William F…
Don’t call her “Molly.” At least, not if you want to be historically accurate. Margaret Tobin Brown didn’t ever go by the name Molly during her lifetime. It was after her death in 1932 that tabloids inaccurately portrayed her as the unsophisticated “Molly Brown,” a moniker that became cemented by…
Heavy red velvet curtains frame the entrance to the small, chapel-like room. It’s only 2:30 p.m., but the four wooden pews are filled almost to capacity. The crowd turns expectantly as a man enters and strides to the front of the room. “This is our…
What are those dark, hulking, hump-backed beasts just off Interstate 70 on the way to Colorado’s ski country? Your eyes do not deceive you. There are indeed two to three dozen buffalo (or American bison, technically speaking) roaming the grasslands that flank the highway at Genesee Park. And they’ve…
