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This is the best music store I have ever been in. The music selection is incredible. They also carry records, action figures, DVDs, and pop culture knickknacks.

I believe that this is the bookstore that inspired Barnes & Noble. At the very least, it’s the larger, cooler, indie version.

There are two Tattered Cover locations in Denver, the Historic LoDo store (1628 16th Street at Wynkoop) and the Colfax Avenue store (2526 East Colfax Avenue at Elizabeth Street). Both locations are excellent.

Not to be driven without 4-wheel-drive (high-clearance) or with a fear of heights.

This place is not a destination-type-spot, but it’s an okay place to spend a half-day. A brewery there has the best root beer I have ever tasted.

This was the first real lighthouse I saw and was in, which is a big deal for a girl who grew up in Wyoming. I didn’t even see the sea until I was 8 or 9. The niftiest thing to see from the top of the lighthouse is not the ocean, but the coast and all the people playing on the beach.

(pic stolen from here via Google’s image search)

Denver is the closest big city to where I live, so I’ve been there rather frequently. There’s lots of nice things to do there.

The Denver Center Theater won a Tony for regional theater and I’ve enjoyed every play I’ve seen them do. In the same performing arts complex the opera, ballet, and traveling companies of Broadway shows also perform.

The Tattered Cover bookstore is the bookstore that Barnes & Noble ripped off when they started. If you’re in Denver, see the original in the Cherry Creek shopping district and see why 4 floors of books are better than one.

The Denver Art Museum, while currently being expanded so they don’t have they’re usual capacity, is a fantastic art museum and hosts great permanent collections as well as excellent temporary exhibits.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is a good science museum, and right next to the Denver Zoo. I suggest if it’s a nice day going to the museum, and if it’s cold and windy throwing on a coat and going to the zoo. That way you avoid the school children.

If kitsch and South Park and bad Mexican food are your things, you may want to eat at Casa Bonita .

This is a great jumping-off point to great hiking, climbing, and backpacking in the national forest in the summer and very affordable downhill skiing in the winter as well as cross-country skiing, show-shoeing, and snowmobiling. The restaurants are great and as a university town we have cultural events such as plays and concerts frequently.