A restaurant housed in a former mortuary. A 28-foot-tall-cream-can ice-cream store. A graceful bridge arching from Central to Platte Street. A food hall with seven shipping-containers, restaurants and jaw-dropping city views. What’s not to like? Lower Highland, or the hipper, abbreviated LoHi, is as an uber-trendy destination and jumping-off point between Denver’s downtown core and […]

It would be romantic to think that one of Denver’s most distinctive neighborhoods got its name from a shattered love affair in the Scottish Highlands. But the truth is more prosaic. George W. Olinger, a scion of the Olinger Mortuary family, saw a subdivision in Kansas City he liked with the same name, Bonnie Brae, […]

An artsy neighborhood in Colorado’s coolest cityWith all the major league sports teams, performing arts venues and the state government headquartered in Denver, it’s easy to dismiss Aurora, as well, Aurora. But if you stick to the Denver bubble west of Colorado Boulevard, you’re missing what is arguably Colorado’s coolest city. Shaped like a puzzle […]

A SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH GRAND VIEWSYou’re steps away from a city park, a walk to Tennyson Street and a quick pedal to a college, library, recreation center and dog park. Whether you spell it Grand View or Grandview (there doesn’t seem to be any consensus), this small rectilinear subdivision in the larger Berkeley neighborhood between […]

If you’ve never heard of Athmar Park, you’re not alone. This under-the-radar, gem of a neighborhood rides the banks of the Platte River and buttresses a strip of South Federal Boulevard with some of the city’s best Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants—and used to offer smoking-hot home deals. The deals are largely gone, but the neighborhood […]

Sitting on a bluff just to the northwest of downtown Denver sits Jefferson Park, a bourgeoning urban neighborhood named for the beautiful 6.7-acre public park that lies at its heart. Just west of I-25 and bounded by Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue to the north and south, and Federal Boulevard and the Platte River to […]

Archaeological evidence suggests that the site where the Cherry Creek Shopping Center currently stands may have been a cross-cultural trading site, indicating that people have shopped along the banks of Cherry Creek for centuries—long before white settlers colonized the region that now houses the aforementioned destination mall, the Cherry Creek North dining and shopping district, […]

Back when Denver was a young burg, the city had a less-than-savory reputation, which is why more upright-leaning (uptight?) folks found themselves drawn to the area surrounding the Methodist-founded University of Denver. Incorporated in 1886 as the Town of South Denver—far above the saloons and roadhouses of the rambunctious young Denver—South Denver sprawled from Colorado […]

The Denverite recognizes it for fighting unwanted development. 5280 magazine calls it one of Denver’s top 25 neighborhoods. Homebuyers love it for its access to I-25, the Denver Tech Center, downtown and the Highline Canal. Ever hear of Southmoor Park? Southmoor Park is an odd, polygonal-shaped area bounded loosely by I-25, East Hampden Avenue, Happy […]

Arguably no neighborhood on Denver’s Northside has undergone as many changes in the last 20 years as Sloan’s Lake. Bounded by Colfax on the south and 29th Avenues on the north and sandwiched between Federal and Sheridan Boulevards, Sloan’s Lake today is both a park and neighborhood: the park, a 177-acre city refuge comprised of […]