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There's something new to see every day at one of the denver's hundreds of live entertainment venues. If you're truly hip, you've got to check out these hot Denver events, and take the time to see the Denver Broncos, for some excellent Denver football, or the NBA's Denver Nuggets for some serious hoop action.

If music's more your thing, Denver has a great tradition of rock 'n' roll in the city. Artists such as Toby Keith, The Police, Dave Matthews Band, and Aerosmith.

Denver is home to one of the United States Mint facilities. The United States Mint offers tours in its Denver location, free of charge. Touring the US Mint is a fascinating mystery tour for people of all ages, to be cherished for a lifetime. Tours cover the present conditions inherent in coin manufacturing as well as the history of the Mint itself. There is much to learn about about the craftsmanship required for the proper minting process, from the original designs and sculptures to the actual striking of the coins, all can be viewed by those taking this excellent Denver tour. Mint locations welcome school and youth groups (grades kindergarten through 12), organized military and veteran groups, and are wheelchair accessible. This an aspect of the Denver vacation experience that shouldn't be missed, as it is both fun and educational.

You can't visit Denver without seeing the Colorado State Capital building. The Mile-High City is surprisingly flat, despite the presence of the Rocky Mountains. On the 15th step of the State Capitol Building, at a location clearly marked for your convenience, you will find yourself 5,280 feet above sea level. The Corinthian-style granite structure is really quite beautiful, with its gold leaf covered dome and many intricate features, bathed in the unique silver sunlight of the Rocky Mountains.

Named one of the top ten public gardens in the United States by Country Living Gardener magazine, Denver's excellent Botanic Gardens will wow and impress you with their elaborate and natural wonders. The senses reel, as you drift thorugh the dreamy flowers, caressing the lush plants and wallowing in their gorgeous armoma. The gardens are one of Denver's top outdoor attractions with so many aspects. There is a therapeutic garden which serves as a design model for facilities, catering to people with disabilities or special needs, featuring wheelchair-accessible paths, and elevated flower beds, among other well thought out Denver attractions in this mindful place.

Prepare to be completely lovestruck by Denver's wonderful downtown area. Downtown Denver was designated a Historic District in 1988, and its beautiful redbrick Victorian neighborhood had fell into a state of disrepair. A huge revitalization project created the unique 26 block LoDo District, now one of the main attractions in Denver. Nowadays, a neighborhood of mixed use dwellings, retail and business buildings, along with ritzy lofts and high-end restaurants, pack the once deserted streets. The renowned Tattered Cover bookshop is here, close to Denver's historic Union Station, another top Denver attraction. LoDo ("Lower Downtown") is the heart and soul of Denver excellent nightlife, with its jazz clubs, driving techno and dance clubs, interesting cocktail lounges, and colorful neighborhood bars. To the north of the LoDo is the revered Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, yet another great attraction on this Mile High plateau.

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Denver is home to many nationally recognized museums, including a new wing for the Denver Art Museum by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the second largest Performing arts center in the nation after Lincoln Center in New York City and bustling neighborhoods such as LoDo, filled with art galleries, restaurants, bars and clubs. That is part of the reason why Denver was recently recognized for the third year in a row as the best city for singles. Denver continues to gain cultural importance. The city was selected as the future home for a museum dedicated to abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still. Denver's neighborhoods also continue their influx of diverse people and businesses while the city's cultural institutions grow and prosper.

While Denver may not be as recognized for historical musical prominence as some other American cities, it still manages to have a very active pop, jazz, jam, folk, and classical music scene, which has nurtured several artists and genres to regional, national, and even international attention. Of particular note is Denver's importance in the folk scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Well-known folk artists such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and John Denver lived in Denver at various points during this time, and performed at local clubs.

Many of Denver's parks were acquired from state lands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This coincided with the City Beautiful movement, and legendary Denver mayor Robert Speer (1904-12 and 1916-18) set out to expand and beautify the city's parks. Reinhard Schuetze was the city's first landscape architect, and he brought his German-educated landscaping genius to Washington Park, Cheesman Park, and City Park among others. Speer used Schuetze as well as other landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Saco Rienk DeBoer to design not only parks such as Civic Center Park, but many city parkways and tree-lawns. All of this greenery was fed with South Platte River water diverted through the city ditch.

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Most of Denver has a straightforward street grid oriented to the four cardinal directions. Blocks are usually identified in hundreds from the median streets, identified as "00", which are Broadway (the east–west median, running north–south) and Ellsworth Avenue (the north–south median, running east–west). Colfax Avenue, the major east-west artery through Denver, is 15 blocks (1500) north of the median. Avenues north of Ellsworth are numbered (with the exception of Colfax Avenue and a few others), while avenues south of Ellsworth are named. There is also an older downtown grid system that was designed to be parallel to the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. Most of the streets downtown and in LoDo run northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast. This system has an unplanned benefit for snow removal; if the streets were in a normal N-S/E-W grid, only the N-S streets would receive sunlight. With the grid oriented to the diagonal directions, the NW-SE streets receive sunlight to melt snow in the morning and the NE-SW streets receive it in the afternoon. This idea was from Henry Brown the founder of the Brown Palace Hotel. There is now a plaque across the street from the Brown Palace Hotel which honors this idea. The NW-SE streets are numbered, while the NE-SW streets are named. The named streets start at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway with the block-long Cheyenne Place. The numbered streets start underneath the Colfax and I-25 viaducts. There are 27 named and 44 numbered streets on this grid. There are also a few vestiges of the old grid system in the normal grid, such as Park Avenue, Morrison Road, and Speer Boulevard.

All roads in the downtown grid system are streets. (16th Street, Stout Street) Roads outside of that system that travel east/west are given the suffix "avenue" and those that head north and south are given the "street" suffix. (Example, Colfax Avenue, Lincoln Street,). Boulevards are higher capacity streets and will travel any direction (more commonly North and South). Smaller roads are sometimes referred to as places, drives or courts. Most streets outside of the area between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard are organized alphabetically from the city's center. Confusion may arise where the two grid systems meet, especially given downtown Denver's one way streets. The system can be easily navigated with the help of directional signs. The mountains to the west also offer a great compass-point for those attempting to drive in the Mile High City.

Denver is primarily served by the interstate highways I-25 and I-70. The intersection of the two interstates is referred to locally as "the mousetrap", because when airborne, the junction (and subsequent vehicles) resemble mice in a large trap. I-70 runs east-west from Utah to Maryland. I-25 runs north-south from New Mexico through Denver to Wyoming. I-225 traverses neighboring Aurora and connects with I-25 in the southeastern corner of Denver. Additionally, I-76 begins from I-70 just west of the city in Arvada. It intersects I-25 north of the city and runs northeast to Nebraska where it ends at I-80. Denver also has a nearly complete beltway known as "the 470's". These are C-470, a limited access state highway in the southwest Metro area, and two toll highways, E-470 (from southeast to northeast) and Northwest Parkway (from terminus of E-470 to US 36). Highway 6 follows the alignment of 6th Avenue west of I-25, and connects downtown Denver to the west-central suburbs of Golden and Lakewood. A highway expansion and transit project for the southern I-25 corridor, dubbed T-REX (TRansportation EXpansion project), was completed on November 17, 2006. The project installed wider and additional highway lanes, and improved highway access and drainage. The project also includes a light rail line that traverses from downtown to the south end of the metro area at Lincoln Avenue. The project spanned almost 19 miles along the highway with an additional line traveling parallel to part of I-225

Mass transportation throughout the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area is managed and coordinated by the Regional Transportation District (RTD). RTD currently operates more than 1,000 buses serving over 10,000 bus stops in 38 municipal jurisdictions in eight counties around the Denver-Aurora and Boulder Metropolitan Areas. Additionally, RTD operates six light rail lines, the C,D,E,F,G,and H with a total of 34.9 miles (56 km) of track, serving 37 stations. FasTracks, an expansion project approved by voters in 2004, will allow light rail to serve cities such as Lakewood, Golden, and Aurora. Commuter rail lines will serve the northern section of the metropolitan area, in addition to Boulder, Longmont, and Denver International Airport. November 17, 2006 saw the first extension of Light Rail in four years, and some elements of the new lines will mark the beginning of the FasTracks program, although this extension of the system was part of T-REX. Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Denver, operating its California Zephyr daily in both directions between Chicago and Emeryville, California, across the bay from San Francisco. Amtrak Thruway service operated by private bus companies links the Denver station with Rocky Mountain points. At Raton, New Mexico, Denver Thruway connections are made daily with the Amtrak Southwest Chief. Additionally, there is the Ski Train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, which takes passengers between Denver and the Winter Park Ski Resort. Denver's early years as a major train hub of the west are still very visible today. Trains stop in Denver at historic Union Station, where travelers can access RTD's 16th Street Free MallRide or use light rail to tour the city. Union Station will also serve as the main juncture for rail travel in the metro area, at the completion of FasTracks.

Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN), commonly known as DIA, serves as the primary airport for the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan area. It is the tenth busiest airport in the world and ranks fifth in the United States, with 47,324,844 passengers passing through it in 2006. It covers more than 53 square miles (137 km²), making it the largest airport in the United States by land area. Denver serves as a major hub for United Airlines and the headquarters for Frontier Airlines. In the past, Denver has been home to other airports that are no longer operational. Stapleton International Airport was closed in 1995 when it was replaced by DIA. Lowry Air Force Base was a military flight training facility that ceased flight operations in 1966, with the base finally being closed in 1994. It is currently being used for residential purposes. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC) and Centennial Airport (KAPA) are north and south, respectively, of downtown Denver. Both airports are moderately busy, but only serve general aviation aircraft.