Guides
The longer reads: how the neighborhood got here, how to move through it, and how to have a good night in it without a reservation you forgot to make.
Playbooks · 2 min
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.
History · 5 min
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.
Practical · 3 min
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.
Playbooks · 2 min
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.
Playbooks · 2 min
A night at Ball Arena
Nuggets, Avs, Mammoth, or the big tour. Where to eat first, how to get across Speer, and how to get home without sitting in the lot.
Places · 3 min
Inside Union Station
What is actually in the building, hour by hour, and how to use it as a living room, a bar, a hotel and a train station at once.
Places · 2 min
Larimer Square, block by block
The one block that saved the neighborhood, what's on it now, and how to spend an evening there without a plan.
Places · 3 min
The Auraria campus, for people who only ever drive past it
Three colleges, forty thousand students, a brewery from 1866, and a neighborhood that was cleared to make room for it. What's across Speer, and how to walk it.