9/24/09
We are going to be here:
...for the next week. Anybody have good suggestions? You know, for anything?
Posted by Ian Williams at September 24, 2009 10:28 PMWhy does one go to Denver without plans?
Denver Roller Dolls double-header, Saturday night at the Denver Coliseum. WORD.
Rocky Mountain National Park.
Maybe it's just me, but not knowing Denver that well, it always seemed rather charmless the few times I've briefly been there.
And I'd be all over the thrift stores, music shops and pawn shops. If I recall correctly, Denver has a lot of pawns.
Go to the Cherry Cricket Burger joint in downtown Denver. The Burgers are great and it's got a good young vibe
Rocky Mountain high. $1 fine for possession. Then Cherry Cricket Burger joint.
Get out of town. :-)
Boulder, Red Rocks, Pike's Peak, national parks.
Gosh, if you weren't Lefty McLeftyPants I'd say have a fresh Coors in Golden (the only place I've ever had one).
I would say take a drive up Mt. Evans, but I see from trying to provide you with a link, that it is closed for 2009. Bummer.
In all my years of camping/hiking I have never seen more wildlife than I did DRIVING up the paved road on Mt. Evans. Wild.
As an NPS employee, I'd recommend not staying in Denver too long. Drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park, or down to Fossil Beds. If you've got more than a day to get out of town, drive down to Mesa Verde, and when you get back in the evening, turn on Ken Burn's new pbs show on the National Parks.
I believe Tammy used to live a few blocks from there.
Yeah, Rocky Mountain National Park. Drive up Trail Ridge Road. The elk should be in fine form about now....
I was in Denver for a few days last summer. Their Natural History Museum is pretty good, and we LOVED going to Red Rocks, which is an easy drive from the city.
The old bar at the Oxford Hotel - martini
The bar at Sullivans for a scotch - neat.
My old stomping grounds! I'd definitely hit the Cherry Cricket for a burger and do the Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park drive as others have mentioned. Red Rocks too. There's a spot nearby there that's one of the last areas in the country where wild buffalo still roam (oh, a give me a home...), GOogle that and try to check it out.
There's also a really neat Butterfly Museum in Westminster that I bet Lucy would love.
And lots of great little bars/pubs on Colfax between Capitol Hill and City Park.
It wasn't cheap, but I had an excellent meal at Tamayo:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/tamayo-restaurant-denverIf they're still playing (see how much I pay attention to MLB), catching a Rockies game would be good fun.
Not sure it's up your alley but I really enjoyed my tour of the Denver mint.