Denver's outpost of the most famous name in stand-up sits where a airport runway used to be. The Denver Improv at 8246 Northfield Boulevard, Unit 1400, anchors the entertainment strip of The Shops at Northfield in Central Park - the vast redevelopment of the old Stapleton International Airport site in northeast Denver - operating as part of the Improv chain descended from Budd Friedman's original 1963 New York club, the room that invented the modern comedy-club format and launched the brick-wall.....

In the historic City Park east of downtown Denver, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is one of the largest natural-history museums in the western United States and the principal natural-history institution of the broader Rocky Mountain region. The museum traces its origins to 1900, when the pioneer Colorado naturalist Edwin Carter's celebrated taxidermy collection (assembled from years of personal field work throughout the Rocky Mountain wilderness) was acquired by the City of Denver and put.....

The building has poured drinks since the early 1890s and never changed hands until 2015 - the music hall attached to it was a Croatian and Slovenian fraternal lodge built in 1903. Globe Hall, at 4483 Logan Street in Denver's Globeville neighbourhood, is a Texas-style barbecue joint, dive bar and 200-capacity music venue occupying what locals believe is the longest-surviving saloon in the district. The history is working-class Denver distilled: the bar served workers from the Globe Smelting and .....

The dance floor is 5,000 square feet of hardwood, the building holds close to 2,000 people, and Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith have all played it. The Grizzly Rose, at 5450 North Valley Highway alongside Interstate 25 just north of downtown Denver, has been Colorado's definitive country nightclub and dance hall since 1989. The 40,000-square-foot honky-tonk earned national validation early: the Country Music Association crowned it Club of the Year in 1995, and the roll call of acts w.....

The Killers, Arcade Fire and The Lumineers all played this 250-capacity room before the arenas called - which is exactly the business model. Larimer Lounge, at 2721 Larimer Street in Denver's River North Art District, has been the city's essential proving-ground venue since Scott Campbell opened it in December 2002, back when RiNo was still empty warehouses. The location was a bet that paid off slowly: for its first decade the Lounge was a destination venue in an industrial no-man's-land north .....

The halls were built for prize bulls and pivot to bass drops without blinking. The Expo Hall of the Livestock Center (LVC) at the National Western Center, at 5004 National Western Drive in Denver, is more than 150,000 square feet of flexible, hardscaped event space on the campus of the century-old National Western Stock Show. The campus is a Denver institution reborn: the National Western Center is the city's billion-dollar redevelopment of the historic stockyards district along the South Platt.....

A purpose-built concert venue in Denver's River North Art District, the Mission Ballroom opened in 2019 as a flagship addition to the city's live-music scene. Created by a major concert promoter and designed from the ground up around the audience experience, the venue introduced an innovative, flexible approach to capacity that quickly made it one of the most admired mid-to-large rooms in the country. The hall is notable for its movable stage and adaptable floor, allowing capacity to be configu.....

The factory made film reels for Hollywood's golden age; the venue now projects onto its own walls. ReelWorks Denver at 1399 35th Street in the RiNo Art District is an independent event and concert space inside a one-storey 1945 Goldberg Brothers factory, scaling from 150 guests to 3,500 across 22,000 square feet of reclaimed industrial floor plus outdoor space. The site's industrial lineage runs deeper: the Lindquist Cracker Company built a three-storey brick factory here in the 1890s, sold in .....