Denver, which I went to in April 2016, was an experiment in taking a micro-trip, a very focused and quick weekend getaway, chosen at the last minute to maximize the availability of good weather. I flew out in the evening on Friday, and flew home in the evening on Sunday. In the meantime, I walked for huge distances, went to a rock concert, three museums, many restaurants, a potshop and the Denver Wrangler. I considered the visit a huge success. I found Denver to be quite a pleasant place to visit, I liked the "bent-grid" layout of the city, the sense that they are reclaiming parts of the downtown, I liked the tourists on the 16th Street Mall and the indigent hangers-on exerting their right to be there. There were cherry blossoms. It all worked very well for me.
Photo List (Total 331 Photos) Click bolded headers below to view, or click "just the best" for quick tour
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Colorado Capitol and Area (92 photos) - The Colorado Capitol building sits in a greenspace, with the Denver City and County Building just across the very formal Civic Center Park. Just to the south of this area is a collection of cultural institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Public Library, the Clyfford Still Museum and a historical house. Nearby to the Capitol building is the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. I was actually in this area four times, in the evening on Friday, in bright sun twice on Saturday when I took photos of the exteriors of the buildings and inside the library, and on cloudy Sunday when I went into the Denver Art Gallery and the Clyfford Still Museum.
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Central City (83 photos) - This includes the area around my hotel, the very touristy 16th Street Mall, quite a few photos of tall buildings around Broadway, the Colorado Convention Centre, the Theatre District (including interiors of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House where I saw a Father John Misty concert).
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Lower Downtown, Union Station and area (67 photos) - This area is closer to the South Platte River, and is marked by brick warehouse buildings, former industrial buildings near Union Station, and quite a lot of lowrise residential construction. There are a number of parks along the river, and walkways along nearby Cherry Creek. This gallery includes a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Outer Areas (64 photos) - I took a few walks outside the core. One was just south of the core, on the Auraria campus, where there was nothing to photograph except downtown in the distance. I ended up after experimenting with a ride on the LRT to the 10th and Osage stop, and walked back into town from there. Most of the photos, however, were taken along Colfax to City Park, where I scored some nice photos of the downtown skyscrapers against a mountain background.
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Transit (25 photos) - This gallery includes shots of Denver International Airport and Denver's LRT. There was a train to the airport, and I have photos, but it was actually to open two weeks after my visit, so I missed it! I also took a ride on the LRT. There was a free shuttle bus that went back and forth along the 16th Street Mall, which was very popular, and I have a few photos of that as well.
