My Denver Wish List

Soon, I’ll be jumping on an early morning flight to Denver to spend 3 days before Eric has to work and I have to come back home to work, too. We will be relying on public transportation to get around, but we’ll be staying in a new-ish vacation rental called Sonder. I have things I want to get to and also a Denver CityPASS, so let’s look at this ambitious wish list I have:

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For Eric’s birthday, I bought two walking tours as experiential gifts. One was for Sacramento, which I’ll be talking about soon, and the other is a street art walking tour in Denver. 

Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station

Since visiting Omega Mart in Las Vegas by the art collective known as Meow Wolf, we have made the goal to visit all of their locations. When Eric found out he was going to Denver for work, he knew he wanted to go. I’m just tagging along to enjoy it too. Meow Wolf makes interactive art that is highly popular, because each location has a different theme and story that you get to follow and figure out for yourself.

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Denver Botanic Gardens

I love a good botanical garden, because I want to see all the native plants that can be found in a destination. It’s a lovely way to spend a quiet few hours while taking photos of beautiful things. 

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Denver Downtown Aquarium

This was not on the top of my list, but I am really eager to see for myself what seems to be a place that people either love or are terribly disappointed in. It’s included in the CityPASS and I always enjoy seeing cool fish. 

Denver Museum of Science and Nature

So, I just heard that for about another month, DMSN has an exhibit on poisons. I’m very intrigued by that, as I am most of the special exhibits that come to these sorts of hands-on museums. I try to get to a lot of the rotating ones that come to OMSI here, and I like to see how other science museums differ from ours.

Denver Art Museum

Okay, you already know how much I like a museum. I met a few people at the Travel Goods Show who do a lot of adventure travel. When I mentioned I’m a city traveler who goes to a lot of museums and fun restaurants and they admitted that museums are awful to them. That’s a shame, because I learn so much from museums. I may not want to spend my whole day there, but viewing regional art always benefits me.

Historic Chinatown Marker

Every Chinatown is different, yet still familiar. It’s always interesting to see those areas in cities that are primarily white. Now, Denver, like a lot of the west, has been the victim of anti-Asian riots in the late 1800s, and their Chinatown was lost, but they have since put up this marker, a mural, and plaques to remember their once prosperous Chinatown district.

History Colorado Center

This is another hands-on museum that showcases Colorado’s history, mostly through the indigenous Puebloans that built the area. I find that history is best learned through interactive exhibits and by talking to docents who love their city and their job.

Other things to see/do

If there’s time, I’d like to pay a visit to the Denver Zoo, which I’ve heard is lovely. I’d also like to visit Molly Brown’s house. If you’ve watched or learned about the Titanic, then you know Molly Brown was one of the survivors. I want to try ice cream from a giant milk can. I want to eat at a restaurant that was a former mortuary. And I want to eat at one of the many brunch restaurants called Snooze A.M.

I will also be checking out Union Station, the Milk Market & Dairy Block, and the historical Larimer Square.

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