Lower Downtown · Denver · 5,280 ft
The neighborhood where Denver started, kept current.
Every game at Coors Field and Ball Arena, every show from the Paramount to the back room at Ophelia’s, what’s happening on the Auraria campus, and 357 places worth walking into — on one map, refreshed every hour.
Denver Union Station (55347690534) by thirdsphoto (CC BY 4.0)
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The map
Speer to the Ballpark, block by block
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The places that make the neighborhood
LandmarkUnion Station
Denver's living room, with trains underneath and a hotel upstairs
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
MLB ballparkCoors Field
$$The brick ballpark that made LoDo, and still the best summer night in Denver
LoDo · 2001 Blake St
multi-purpose arenaBall Arena
Nuggets, Avalanche, Mammoth and the big tours, across Speer from LoDo
LoDo · 1000 Chopper Cir
LandmarkLarimer Square
Denver's oldest block, strung with lights, still the city's dinner street
LoDo · 1400 block of Larimer St (14th–15th)
LandmarkDairy Block
A 1920s dairy block turned into an alley, a food hall and a hotel
LoDo · 1800 Wazee St
LandmarkMcGregor Square
The Rockies' own plaza with a 66-foot screen, across the street from the ballpark
LoDo · 1901 Wazee St
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
$David Adjaye's glass box with the best rooftop bar in LoDo
LoDo · 1485 Delgany St
Comedy Works Downtown
$$The basement club where national headliners still test material
LoDo · 1226 15th St
Eat
Where to eat
Rioja
$$$Jennifer Jasinski's Larimer Square anchor, twenty years in and still the reservation.
LoDo · 1431 Larimer St
Tavernetta
$$$The Frasca team's Italian, across from Union Station, with an all-afternoon bar.
LoDo · 1889 16th St
food hallDenver Milk Market
$$Eleven counters under one roof in the old Windsor Dairy block
LoDo · 1800 Wazee Street
Little Man Ice Cream
$A 28-foot steel milk can at the bridge top, open till midnight
Platte Street & the bridge · 2620 16th Street
A5 Steakhouse
$$$$Loud, plant-filled steakhouse that treats a chophouse like a dinner party.
LoDo · 1600 15th Street
Ajax Downtown
$$$Aspen's Ajax Tavern, transplanted into the Limelight hotel by Union Station.
LoDo · 1899 16th St
Drink
Where to drink
brewpubWynkoop Brewing Company
$$The 1988 brewpub that started LoDo, with a pool hall upstairs.
LoDo · 1634 18th Street
The Cruise Room
$$$An Art Deco martini bar open since the day after Prohibition ended.
LoDo · 1600 17th Street (Oxford Hotel)
My Brother's Bar
$$Denver's oldest bar, still griddling the jalapeno cream cheese burger
Platte Street & the bridge · 2376 15th Street
The Cooper Lounge
$$$$Balcony seats above the Great Hall, martinis at the rail
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop Street
Denver Beer Co - Platte Street
$$The original Denver Beer Co taproom, garage doors open onto Platte
Platte Street & the bridge · 1695 Platte St
Brooklyn's at Ball Arena
$$The sports bar in the arena's front yard, open before every Nuggets and Avs game.
Auraria & Ball Arena · 901 Auraria Pkwy
Do
Beyond the bar stool
LandmarkUnion Station
Denver's living room, with trains underneath and a hotel upstairs
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
MLB ballparkCoors Field
$$The brick ballpark that made LoDo, and still the best summer night in Denver
LoDo · 2001 Blake St
multi-purpose arenaBall Arena
Nuggets, Avalanche, Mammoth and the big tours, across Speer from LoDo
LoDo · 1000 Chopper Cir
LandmarkLarimer Square
Denver's oldest block, strung with lights, still the city's dinner street
LoDo · 1400 block of Larimer St (14th–15th)
LandmarkDairy Block
A 1920s dairy block turned into an alley, a food hall and a hotel
LoDo · 1800 Wazee St
LandmarkMcGregor Square
The Rockies' own plaza with a 66-foot screen, across the street from the ballpark
LoDo · 1901 Wazee St
Get your bearings
Four corners of one neighborhood
171 places
LoDo
Speer to 20th, Larimer to the river. Union Station, Larimer Square, the Dairy Block, and the brick warehouses that started it all.
95 places
Ballpark & RiNo edge
North of Coors Field toward 27th — the pre-game strip, the breweries, and the RiNo edge where LoDo blurs into River North.
14 places
Auraria & Ball Arena
Across Speer: the three-college campus with the old Tivoli brewery at its heart, and Ball Arena on the river side.
46 places
Platte Street & the bridge
Over the Highland Bridge from Commons Park: the Platte Street strip, Confluence Park, and Denver's oldest bar.
Guides
Read before you go
One good day in LoDo
If you have a single day and no plan, do this. Coffee to last call, all on foot, in the order the neighborhood wants you to take it.
2 min read
How LoDo happened
Denver started here in 1858, nearly tore the place down in the 1960s, and then, in about thirty years, turned a skid row of empty warehouses into the most-visited neighborhood in the state. The short version, with dates you can check.
5 min read
Getting to and around LoDo
The train from the airport, the free shuttle, the three bridges, where to park on a game night, and why you should mostly walk.
3 min read
A Rockies game, done properly
Cheap seats, the purple row, which bar before, which bar after, and how not to sit in traffic. The LoDo home-game playbook.
2 min read
The weekly letter
Thursday morning, one email: the week in LoDo.
Home stands, shows, campus happenings, one place worth knowing about, and nothing else. No daily blasts, no algorithm.
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