Lower Downtown · Denver · 5,280 ft
The neighborhood where Denver started, kept current.
Every game at Coors Field and Ball Arena, every show from the Paramount to the back room at Ophelia’s, what’s happening on the Auraria campus, and 142 places worth walking into — on one map, refreshed every hour.
Denver Union Station (55347690534) by thirdsphoto (CC BY 4.0)
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The map
Speer to the Ballpark, block by block
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The places that make the neighborhood
LandmarkUnion Station
Denver's living room, with trains underneath and a hotel upstairs
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
MLB ballparkCoors Field
$$The brick ballpark that made LoDo, and still the best summer night in Denver
LoDo · 2001 Blake St
multi-purpose arenaBall Arena
Nuggets, Avalanche, Mammoth and the big tours, across Speer from LoDo
LoDo · 1000 Chopper Cir
LandmarkLarimer Square
Denver's oldest block, strung with lights, still the city's dinner street
LoDo · 1400 block of Larimer St (14th–15th)
LandmarkDairy Block
A 1920s dairy block turned into an alley, a food hall and a hotel
LoDo · 1800 Wazee St
LandmarkMcGregor Square
The Rockies' own plaza with a 66-foot screen, across the street from the ballpark
LoDo · 1901 Wazee St
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
$David Adjaye's glass box with the best rooftop bar in LoDo
LoDo · 1485 Delgany St
Comedy Works Downtown
$$The basement club where national headliners still test material
LoDo · 1226 15th St
Eat
Where to eat
Rioja
$$$Jennifer Jasinski's Larimer Square anchor, twenty years in and still the reservation.
LoDo · 1431 Larimer St
Tavernetta
$$$The Frasca team's Italian, across from Union Station, with an all-afternoon bar.
LoDo · 1889 16th St
MarketDenver Milk Market
$$The Dairy Block food hall, refreshed in 2024 and 2025, ten counters and a bar.
LoDo · 1800 Wazee St
Little Man Ice Cream
$The giant milk can at the top of the Highland Bridge, with a line every night in summer.
Platte Street & the bridge · 2620 16th St
Snooze, an A.M. Eatery (Union Station)
$$The Denver-born pancake chain's Union Station room, and its longest line.
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
Work & Class
$$Square meals at fair prices in a shipping-container building at 25th and Larimer.
Ballpark & RiNo edge · 2500 Larimer St
Drink
Where to drink
brewpubWynkoop Brewing Company
$$The 1988 brewpub that started LoDo, with a pool hall upstairs.
LoDo · 1634 18th Street
The Cruise Room
$$$An Art Deco martini bar open since the day after Prohibition ended.
LoDo · 1600 17th Street (Oxford Hotel)
My Brother's Bar
$$Serving since 1873, no sign outside, classical music inside, Neal Cassady's bar tab framed on the wall.
Platte Street & the bridge · 2376 15th St
The Cooper Lounge
$$$Cocktails on the mezzanine above Union Station's Great Hall, in view of 17th Street.
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop Street
Denver Beer Co (Platte Street)
$The garage-door taproom on Platte Street where the neighborhood drinks outside.
Platte Street & the bridge · 1695 Platte St
Terminal Bar
$$Beer through the 1914 ticket windows, then take it out to the Great Hall or the plaza.
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
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Beyond the bar stool
LandmarkUnion Station
Denver's living room, with trains underneath and a hotel upstairs
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
MLB ballparkCoors Field
$$The brick ballpark that made LoDo, and still the best summer night in Denver
LoDo · 2001 Blake St
multi-purpose arenaBall Arena
Nuggets, Avalanche, Mammoth and the big tours, across Speer from LoDo
LoDo · 1000 Chopper Cir
LandmarkLarimer Square
Denver's oldest block, strung with lights, still the city's dinner street
LoDo · 1400 block of Larimer St (14th–15th)
LandmarkDairy Block
A 1920s dairy block turned into an alley, a food hall and a hotel
LoDo · 1800 Wazee St
LandmarkMcGregor Square
The Rockies' own plaza with a 66-foot screen, across the street from the ballpark
LoDo · 1901 Wazee St
Get your bearings
Four corners of one neighborhood
123 places
LoDo
Speer to 20th, Larimer to the river. Union Station, Larimer Square, the Dairy Block, and the brick warehouses that started it all.
7 places
Ballpark & RiNo edge
North of Coors Field toward 27th — the pre-game strip, the breweries, and the RiNo edge where LoDo blurs into River North.
4 places
Auraria & Ball Arena
Across Speer: the three-college campus with the old Tivoli brewery at its heart, and Ball Arena on the river side.
3 places
Platte Street & the bridge
Over the Highland Bridge from Commons Park: the Platte Street strip, Confluence Park, and Denver's oldest bar.
Guides
Read before you go
One good day in LoDo
If you have a single day and no plan, do this. Coffee to last call, all on foot, in the order the neighborhood wants you to take it.
2 min read
How LoDo happened
Denver started here in 1858, nearly tore the place down in the 1960s, and then, in about thirty years, turned a skid row of empty warehouses into the most-visited neighborhood in the state. The short version, with dates you can check.
5 min read
Getting to and around LoDo
The train from the airport, the free shuttle, the three bridges, where to park on a game night, and why you should mostly walk.
3 min read
A Rockies game, done properly
Cheap seats, the purple row, which bar before, which bar after, and how not to sit in traffic. The LoDo home-game playbook.
2 min read
The weekly letter
Thursday morning, one email: the week in LoDo.
Home stands, shows, campus happenings, one place worth knowing about, and nothing else. No daily blasts, no algorithm.
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