Aspen Hospitality hotel (formerly Hotel Born) · $$$ · since 2017
Limelight Denver
The ski-company hotel behind Union Station, with Ajax Downtown on the ground floor.
Opened as Hotel Born in 2017 and rebranded as Limelight Denver by Aspen Hospitality in 2024, this is the modern hotel directly behind Union Station on Wewatta, thirty seconds from the train platforms and the bus concourse. Ajax Downtown, the Aspen tavern's first outpost, is the restaurant, and Tavernetta is next door. It is where people stay when the trip is trains, mountains and a Rockies game in the same week.
Why go. Steps from the A Line and the mountain buses, with a good restaurant downstairs.
Ask for a west-facing high floor for the mountain view over the tracks.
A short walk from Limelight Denver
Tavernetta
$$$The Frasca team's Italian, across from Union Station, with an all-afternoon bar.
LoDo · 1889 16th St
Ajax Downtown
$$$Aspen's Ajax Tavern, transplanted into the Limelight hotel by Union Station.
LoDo · 1899 16th St
Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar
$$Asheville biscuits, fried chicken and bourbon across the street from Union Station.
LoDo · 1650 Wewatta St
Tattered Cover Book Store (Union Station)
$$The Denver bookstore's small shop inside Union Station.
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
Snooze, an A.M. Eatery (Union Station)
$$The Denver-born pancake chain's Union Station room, and its longest line.
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St
LandmarkUnion Station
Denver's living room, with trains underneath and a hotel upstairs
LoDo · 1701 Wynkoop St