The Rockies, skiing and craft breweries. Here is when to go, what a day costs on site and what to see, then Okela composes your itinerary hour by hour.

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When to visit Denver

Best months: January, February, June, July, August and September.

What to see in Denver

1. Red Rocks Amphitheatre
   A stage set between two huge walls of red sandstone, with the Denver plains stretching out behind it.
2. Rocky Mountain National Park (excursion)
   From Denver, the park gives you a full high-mountain landscape in a single day: glacial lakes, pine forest, alpine tundra and peaks well above 4,000 meters.
3. Denver Art Museum
   The museum pairs two very different buildings: Daniel Libeskind's angular titanium forms and Gio Ponti's castle-like tower.
4. Union Station & LoDo
   This early twentieth-century station is still the living heart of Denver: people catch trains here, but also stop for coffee, a drink, or just a seat in a big, light-filled hall.
5. Larimer Square
   Larimer Square is the oldest surviving commercial district in Denver and the first to be designated a historic district, in 1971.
6. Denver Botanic Gardens
   This 23-acre garden sits in the middle of the city and brings together plants from very different climates, from dry mountain slopes to tropical greenhouses.
7. Mount Evans / Lookout Mountain
   Lookout Mountain towers over the town of Golden and gives one of the best views of Denver and the plains, about half an hour's drive from downtown.
8. Capitole du Colorado
   The seat of state government, with its gold dome, rises above Civic Center and downtown Denver.

A sample itinerary for Denver, three days

Composed by Okela from the places in its database, with times. Yours takes your dates, pace and group into account.

Budget

Expect about €194 per person per day on site (accommodation, meals, transport and visits), depending on the comfort you choose. Okela shows the price of every step of your itinerary.

My Denver itinerary, hour by hour

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