Winter in ‘The Mile High City’, Denver, Colorado

With 300 days of sunshine, world-class, Michelin-rated eating, a thriving cultural scene, {and professional} sports activities – Denver, often known as the Mile High City affords the right jumping-off level for winter fanatics. This season boasts all kinds of occasions, new eating places, and cultural points of interest to take a look at, together with a great deal of new and renovated lodges.

Seasonal Highlights

Channel your inside Colorado cowboy at National Western Stock & Rodeo (Until 26 Jan)

The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo, a cherished Colorado custom since 1906, is returning to the National Western Complex on 11-26 Jan 2025. The present celebrates Denver’s wealthy Western roots and is the nation’s premier livestock, rodeo and horse present, serving agricultural producers and shoppers all through the world. Enjoy rodeos that includes top-notch bull riders, horse reveals, livestock competitions and auctions. The present additionally affords infinite quantities of procuring at Colorado’s largest Western commerce present.

Train straight to the slopes with the Winter Park Express

Denver is the right place to start out or finish a ski journey for a dynamic metropolis break with a Rockies twist. Denver is dwelling to the one ski prepare in Colorado, making it the right possibility for many who wish to skip a automotive rental and hit the slopes or get pleasure from all a mountain city has to discover. The Winter Park Express Train is now operating Thursday by Monday. Departing Denver Union Station at 7am, the journey to Winter Park Ski Resort takes round 2 hours and departs at 4:30 p.m. The Ski prepare is ideal for households with tickets beginning at £15.50 and £8 for youths.

Catch superb artists at Denver’s most iconic venues

The Denver Center of Performing Arts (DCPA) has a powerful lineup of musicals, theatre productions and interactive occasions this season. Until 9 Feb, don’t miss Monopoly Lifesized: Travel Edition at DCPA Off-Center at Broadway Park. It’s a sport show-style model of the world’s favorite board sport. Rally pals, household or colleagues, for a heart-pounding competitors this season. After its success on Broadway, Gutenberg! The Musical! is enjoying on the Garner Galleria Theatre till 4 May 2025. In this two-person musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights carry out a backers’ audition for his or her new, ill-advised undertaking – an enormous, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. Denver’s personal Jake Brasch left audiences wanting extra on the 2023 Colorado New Play Summit with The Reservoir on the Singleton Theater till 9 March 2025. The lineup continues with Back to the Future: The Musical, Mean Girls, The Wiz and extra.

Denver can also be dwelling to world-class music venues that appeal to expertise year-round. Don’t miss Billy Strings( 24-26 Jan 2025), Tyler, the Creator (11 Feb 2025), and Mary J. Blige (25 Feb 2025), all at Ball Arena. Hippo Campus headlines at Mission Ballroom on (16 Feb 2025), and Red Rocks Amphitheatre will host Icelantic Winter on the Rocks ft. Gramatik (8 March 2025).

New to Denver this Season

Recognised Restaurants

In the newest information, MICHELIN recognised 27 Denver eating places. New eating places added embrace Alma Fonda Fina awarded One MICHELIN Star, MAKFam with a brand new Bib Gourmand, and Brasserie Brixton and Kawa Ni as new Recommended Restaurants.

With worldwide recognition, Denver’s restaurant scene continues to develop month-to-month. Most not too long ago, Denver welcomed Le Colonial, an upscale French Vietnamese restaurant in Cherry Creek North; Stellar Jay, a vigorous rooftop eating expertise, that includes shared plates and live-fired delicacies; Ajax Downtown from Aspen One and the one city restaurant in its portfolio; Magna Kainan, the brand new RiNo undertaking from Portland chef Carlo Lamagna and Denver’s Culinary Creative Group.

Exciting Accommodations 

As a results of MICHELIN Guide revealing its inaugural listing of key lodges in the US, three Denver lodges Clayton Hotel and Members Club, Four Seasons Denver and The Crawford Hotel have been famous as must-visit lodging.

Located in Denver Union Station, The Crawford Hotel was not too long ago renovated with rooms impressed by the golden period of prepare journey. Denver Union Station is a thriving hub for outlets, eating places, and affords easy accessibility to Denver International Airport. Populus Hotel, a brand new downtown resort impressed by nature, opened in October 2024. The 265-room, 13-story resort options an occasion area, a number of meals and beverage venues, and a rooftop deck and bar.

Unmissable Arts 

The Mile High City is dwelling to numerous once-in-a-lifetime displays this winter. Check out The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama at Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, that includes greater than 40 work loaned to the museum by the Japanese American National Museum and Ueyama’s household; Shadow and Light: Patrick Marold  at Denver Botanic Gardens, a site-specific set up highlighting the ever-changing qualities of sunshine and shadow; Flow: On the River with John Fielder, an exhibition specializing in the various makes use of and significance of the Colorado River; Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak, on the Denver Art Museum with greater than 400 of Sendak’s creations; the Butterfly Pavilion’s New Destination: Conservation – Virtual Exhibit is a world journey utilizing VR headsets to discover Butterfly Pavilion’s groundbreaking conservation tasks.

Explore Denver’s hit points of interest or hit the Rockies in no time 

Denver has a wide selection of kid-friendly actions, head to the Denver Zoo to see greater than 3,000 animals together with elephants, orangutans and lions or go to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to discover fossils and dinosaurs, ponder the mysteries of area at Gates Planetarium and watch larger-than-life movies on the Phipps IMAX 3D Theater. The Downtown Aquarium is an ideal spot for youths to awe at astounding marine life, the place they’ll feed the stingrays, pan for gold or turn out to be a marine biologist for a day.

The Mile High City’s proximity to the attractive Rocky Mountains makes it the best vacation spot for the adventurous. Nearby Rocky Mountain National Park is the right place for snowshoeing with magical views or strive cross-country snowboarding in close by Idaho Springs, Estes Park or Golden. After a full day of outside adventures, return to town to seize a craft beer alongside the Denver Beer Trail, buy groceries in Cherry Creek or discover town’s vibrant neighbourhoods.