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Empower Field at Mile High
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Denver Audio Walking Tour

The Mile High City

Stops
39
Core walk
26 of 39 stops within 1.5 mi of the center
Farthest stop
12.8 mi from the center
Start
Union Station
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Denver did not exist until gold was discovered at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River in 1858. Thirty-nine stops carry that founding across LoDo, Capitol Hill, and the Highlands. Union Station opens the walk; LoDo's twenty-three blocks of warehouses, Larimer Square (General William Larimer's 1858 stakes), Coors Field, and Confluence Park gather the frontier city. The gold-domed Colorado State Capitol, Civic Center Park, Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum, Libeskind's titanium Hamilton wing, the History Colorado Center, and the Molly Brown House climb Capitol Hill. Cheesman Park (built on graves), Capitol Hill's Victorian mansions, and the Colfax Avenue corridor Playboy once called the longest, wickedest street in America cross east. Five Points was the Harlem of the West; Welton Street's jazz corridor, RiNo, the Santa Fe Arts District, Baker, and South Broadway follow. City Park, the Denver Zoo, the Museum of Nature and Science, the Botanic Gardens, Buckhorn Exchange, 16th Street Mall, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre close the walk.

Highlights

  • Empower Field at Mile High
    Empower Field at Mile High

    Six decades of professional football have given Denver some of its most intense moments of civic pride and pain, and you have reached the home of the team responsible, the Denver Broncos. The Denver Broncos were founded in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, the upstart league that merged with the NFL in 1970.

  • Coors Field

    Coors Field is the ballpark credited, only partly hyperbolically, with saving downtown Denver. When the Colorado Rockies chose this site in 1991, the surrounding warehouse district was largely derelict.

  • Denver Union Station, 7/15/2006, 7:01 am Ski Train to depart soon. Picture I photographed. Public Domain.
    Union Station

    Notice the great arched windows and the TRAVEL BY TRAIN sign marking Denver's front door for more than a century. Union Station opened in 1881 when Denver was barely twenty years old and the railroads were the arteries of the American West.

  • Denver Art Museum

    Italian architect Gio Ponti completed this seven-story tower, the original Denver Art Museum, in 1971, and you are looking at one of the most distinctive buildings in the American West. Ponti, then in his eighties, created a building unlike anything else in Denver: a seven-story tower clad in more than a million gray glass tiles that catch light differently at every hour of the day.

  • The Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, Colorado. Was the home of Margaret Brown, known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" because she survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It was built in the 1880s by William Lang and restored in the 1970s. Note: nearly 2 feet (70cm) of snow fell in Denver on the day this picture was taken.
    Molly Brown House

    Picture the newspapers dubbing her the Unsinkable Molly Brown after she survived the RMS Titanic's sinking on April 15, 1912, this was her Denver home. Margaret Tobin Brown was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1867 and came to Colorado in the early 1880s seeking opportunity.

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