The High City of Denver
Denver, population 683,000, is the State Capital of Colorado and called the “Mile High City’’ as it is 5280 feet or 1609 meters above sea level. Some conversational information: football, Denver Broncos, basketball, Denver Nuggets, baseball, Colorado Rockies, hockey, Colorado Avalanche, soccer Colorado Rapids. Television series and films associated with Denver and its environs are Dumb and Dumber, Catch and Release, Mork, Mindy and Dynasty and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Gold was discovered in 1858 and hence Denver. But unlike other gold towns it does not own a boisterous river or even a babbling brook but a timid Cherry Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River. I make the railways station of any town a prime destination. Of note Denver has rail service from the airport to Denver’s 1914 Beaux-Arts station. Here is to be found Lodo or Lower Denver which includes Larimer and Writer Square. You might notice that streets change at 45 degree angle. The Millenn