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You don't need any chutes or ladders to get you to Denver's sweet spots. Presented by Denver History Tours, join us on this five-hour tour as we find out there are more to sweet things than chocolate. We'll start with a tour of Hammond's candies and then sample some bakeries, spice shops and other spots to tempt your palette. More gastronomy than history, this tour will fill your senses with delight. There will be an hour for lunch in the middle, so you can have something more filling than candy, and be sure to bring money to spend in the sweet stops along the way!
Denver's air was said to be so healthy that even the sickest person could come to the Queen City of the Plains and live forever. Well, even the healthiest air has its limits and eventually Denver needed places to put its dead. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour looks at the characters laid to rest, the monuments large and small erected to mark their lives, the sentinels that stand over them and the stories and hauntings that surround them. Part historical, part architecture-of-death, part botanical, part supernatural, this tour has something for everyone. Join us, but be ready to walk lightly. There are bones underfoot! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Take a bus tour of Denver's famous Colfax Avenue along its entire 26-mile length from Golden to Aurora. Presented by Denver History Tours, on this five-hour tour you will learn about the evolution of this avenue from neighborhood street to its designation as US Highway 40. Each city along the route has something to share about the rich history of Colfax. Lakewood retains many of the motor hotels servicing auto traffic from the early to mid 20th century. Denver's portion has gone through many incarnations as well, including its seedier elements of pornography shops and prostitution. Learn about the city's efforts to improve Colfax's image along major stretches of the avenue. Continue along into Aurora to see the major redevelopments occurring at the old Fitzsimons Hospital. Colfax is a microcosm of Denver society and this tour will help us learn about ourselves. Come join the fun! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
This tour shows you the breathtaking scenery of the Front Range, with a dose of history to make sure it’s educational. Presented by Denver History Tours, during this five-hour tour we’ll head over Loveland Pass, learn about the history of Denver and more! If you are ready to have the splendor of Colorado sweep you away in a little mountain meditation, this is the tour for you! Mountains ho! (This tour DOES NOT include a one-hour break for lunch. A six-hour tour with lunch can be substituted with a stop in Georgetown.)
Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour is for folks who have an eye for architecture, or those would like to! We’ll look at the various decades in Denver’s architecture, showing you the lovelies and perhaps not-so-lovelies. Much of Denver’s Victorian heritage was torn down during urban renewal, but there are pieces left to be found. Fancy some Art Deco? We’ve got it! How about some Brutalist, Post-Modern, International Style, or Richardsonian Romanesque? Confused? We’ll clear it up as best we can, and along the way you’ll have an architectural smorgasbord. Join us for the Denver Architecture Tour! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Not every Denver pioneer was out here to strike it rich on gold. Some came to save souls and find riches in generosity, good works and ministry. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will show you Denver’s houses of worship from many different religions and denominations. Through this architectural journey, participants will also learn about the growth of Denver and hear a few stories that have linked the people of Denver with their faiths, hand in hand. Denver has more historic buildings devoted to religion that you might realize, and we seek them out in the hidden corners of the city that you may never have happened by before. The tour takes us into three, to view the splendor and the sanctity of these holy spots. Join us for a sampling of Denver’s spots divine! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Remember how your grandparents had to walk three miles in the snow, uphill, both ways, to get to school? And that was after they had milked the cows, mended the clothes, fed the chickens, and split the wood to make kindling. Well, now you may have a taste of the life they led, and maybe find out it wasn’t all that bad in some ways! Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will take you back in time and show you some of Denver’s historic legacies. Depending on the season, tour may include places like the Four-Mile House, the Littleton Historic Museum and sites within the foothills. Guides will demonstrate the raw truth of these frontier days, and you’ll be able to conclude whether or not the folks from Denver’s first days were living lucky or not! Join us, pardner! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal. Tour destinations vary and may include charge for museum entry)
Interested in checking out Downtown Denver's future and its urban redevelopment scene? Presented by Denver History Tours and denverinfill.com, this five-hour tour provides informative driving tours of the Downtown Denver area with a real estate development and urban planning focus. What is Infill? Infill is the process of taking an empty spot within a city and using it, or redeveloping a building or lot that has outlived its use. No suburban sprawl for Denver; we’re filling in and up! Join us for a blend of Denver’s past, present and future. It’s a must for those wanting to be IN THE KNOW on this dynamic city! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Think you know the city of Denver? Think again! Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour looks at the city from beginning to present, telling you many tales, contrasting the past with the present, letting you know the plans for the future, getting you a mile high, letting you know the fiascos and the follies, the romance and the rumors and more! Enthusiastically relayed by folks who can just never get enough of this stuff, you’ll hear some things that you knew, and some things that you didn’t and some things that you had never imagined. And who couldn’t stand to know their home a little better? (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
a Tour of Stapleton, Lowry, and Fitzsimons
Stapleton, Lowry and Fitzsimons are three names that used to mean something very different to the people of Denver. Stapleton the airport moved the public from here to there. Lowry was not open to the public--a place where the military conducted its business as an airforce base. Fitzsimons was an army medical center. All three have been redeveloped as modern neighborhoods, but here and there signs of the old functions can still be seen. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour shows you how these three dynamos of Denver have been reborn as something else entirely, showing you their past, their present and their future. If you haven’t had a drive through recently, you won’t believe your eyes! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour bus tour includes a drive through many of Denver’s most beautiful older neighborhoods where guests will view some of Denver’s architectural wonders—both residential and otherwise. This backdrop will help to further explore the characters and events that have resulted in some of the city’s best known ghost stories. Guests will learn about John and Mary Elitch and their haunted amusement park; the imposing Lumber Baron Inn Bed and Breakfast; the ghost of Denver’s influential Madam Mattie Silks; Sassy Springer and her lovers; Horace and Baby Doe Tabor; the ghosts of Capitol Hill and its mansions; the creepy buildings of Evans, Emerson and Moore Schools; and a tour of the city’s old Mount Prospect Cemetery, known as Cheesman Park today. If time allows, a stop at Fairmount Cemetery, where many of Denver’s pioneers are buried, is in order as well. And although guests on this tour will be unable to visit Denver’s famous Red Rocks Park, they will hear the tales of the city’s most notorious ghoul, the Hatchet Lady of Red Rocks—still rumored to terrorize the park to this day. (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Come see the glittering lights and the fanciful sights on this five-hour bus tour of the holiday season offerings around Denver. We’ll head to the City and County Building in downtown Denver, into neighborhoods and into slices of color around the city to entertain your eye. Each year is different, based on our critical reconnaissance. There will be a half-hour stop for hot chocolate and snacks; please have your dinner before you come! Come along and let us put the holiday twinkle in your eye on this tour of the holiday lights of Denver! (Participants should bring money for their snacks)
Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will look at the way things work in the background of your life. They may not be glamorous, they may not smell pretty, but they are essential parts of any large city. We will visit an Xcel Energy power plant and the Denver Waste Treatment Plant, and more. These are fascinating chances to learn about the structures underneath our lives, so don’t be squeamish. There will be a one-hour break for lunch, so bring some money. PLEASE NOTE --- There will be a lot of walking, standing and time in the sun on this tour. There will be breaks, but we will be ON THE GO, so keep that in mind if you register. Bring a friend and learn what happens when you flush! See you there! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
In 1985, Loveland became the first city in the state to set aside money for art in public places. Now valued at more than six million dollars, Loveland’s wide array of outdoor art includes more than 250 pieces. Presented by Denver History Tours, join us on this five-hour tour as we show you a wide sampling of the city’s art, whether inspiring, controversial, beautiful or just plain old strange. It’s time to take in some of art’s most enduring expressions. Won’t you join us? (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
This wonderful tour looks at the written word, and the buildings that have been built to house them, sell them, promote them and disseminate them. From the Tattered Cover, said to be the largest independent bookstore in the nation, to the historic libraries of the Denver Public Library and on down to the little, fascinating used bookstores, we’ll see some of everything. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will highlight some of the history and architecture as well. Come check out Denver’s temples to the book and maybe find the tome of your life! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Perfect for Valentine’s Day or anyone with a romantic turn of heart, this tour shows you some of the best views of Denver, places to take your sweet babboo, as well as the spots where Denverites of the past wove their romantic tales, some torrid, some tragic, all memorable. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour may very well enflame the passions, and we all know where that ends up! So, come along and taste some romance, Mile High Style! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Once upon a time Denver had the second largest streetcar system in the nation. The streetcar linked the city to the hinterland, allowing folks to begin their suburban dreams, and brought generations of workers, revelers and everyone else downtown to pursue their various purposes. It was all here: horse drawn, electric and cable. The early electric system had a tendency to shock people and horses who walked on the track in wet weather, but it still brought the city of Denver together. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will show you where the lines ran, how the neighborhoods they served were changed by their presence, and how whole cities were able to exist because of them. The streetcars are no more, but the signs of their presences remain. As Denver spends billions to put them back, our modern Lightrail trains, its time to pay homage to the trolleys of the past! All aboard! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)
Let’s head into the hills to see the boomtowns that filled the Front Range, and the mines that gave them their reason to be! Cities like Idaho Springs and Georgetown got rich on metals, and on mining the men who mined the mountains, honestly and not! Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour will take in some of the mountain boomtowns that have given Colorado so much of its history. Depending on the season, we may also take in a mine! Stories aplenty, some shameful, some shocking, will make the day a memorable one …and who knows, you might even catch gold fever yourself! Check for that twinkle in your eye, grab your pan and hit the hills! Or just take this tour and learn about it all from the comfort of a bus. Gold! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal. Depending on season, this tour may also include an entry fee to a museum)
Presented by Denver History Tours, this overnight tour takes you to some of Colorado’s wineries. You don’t have to go to France or the Napa Valley to make wine. The plentiful sunshine and wholesome air of the mountains combine with the fruit of Colorado soil to make some memorable vintages. From Estes Park down to Canon City, this tour takes in some of the finest. We’ll even stop for some cheese! Bring some friends and prepare for an overnight excursion you never imagined could happen in Colorado! It’s the Front Range Winery Tour!
Presented by Denver History Tours! Is the history of Denver just about men? Absolutely not! Come discover the 'weaker' sex that made Denver proud --- and made it blush. Women ventured out of the home, across the prairie, up the mountains, and into our history. Presented by Denver History Tours, this five-hour tour lets you in on the secrets of what they wore --- or didn't --- what they cooked, where they went, and what they did, and what the men thought about it all. Come meet the noble and notorious women of Denver, from Chipeta, the Ute woman who negotiated for peace, to Mattie Silks, the madam who negotiated for sex. So, leave your bloomers behind and join us for the truth about who tamed the West! (This tour includes a one-hour break for lunch. Participants should bring money for their meal)