What to do in Denver, CO?

Enjoy the "world class" drag queens

Clyfford Still Museum

Grow an ironic beard, drink craft beer, and ride a bike.

[QUOTE]Grow an ironic beard, drink craft beer, and ride a bike.

!00% accurate.

What about a gayborhood?

Go to the botanic gardens. The aquarium is sort of fun too. Don't give up when you first go in because the beginning is sort of dingy.

A few bars near Colfax and Hamburger Marys. Not a really gay city - more millennial hipster/druggie. Downtown is not pretty. The best thing about Denver is being able to get out of it into the Rockies. Or Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. A day in Denver is enough then drive up into mountains for the day. There are 1 or 2 bars to go out - so not dead. But not a thriving gay metropolis. And not “exciting” or pretty.

It’s a mecca for fit, outdoorsy people who run and hit the slopes religiously.

Capitol Hill used to be the Gayborhood when I lived there 20 years ago. There used to be plenty of gay bars and it was a very gay friendly city. has it really changed that much since 2000 R7 ?

Not "Capitol Hill." That's Seattle. Cheesman Park is Denver.

In addition to the Still museum, the Denver Museum of Art and the Kirkland Museum of Decorative Arts are both must sees.

There is a capitol hill neighborhood in Denver but it is very small.

My brother and his wife are moving to Denver from a city with a comparable COL. She's getting a store transfer with her low level retail job, but otherwise they don't have work lined up. They're not particularly outdoorsy or into skiing or part of the new age or yoga crowd that congregates in Boulder. Can someone explain what the appeal might be to them?

Any good clubs/bars?

Enjoy some bushy cock.

For some reason, every man from Denver I've hooked up with has a wild, tremendous bush.

You might enjoy Lakeside Amusement Park. It's seen better days, but it still offers a classic amusement park experience with lots of old rides, cool neon signs, and interesting people watching. It's dirt cheap to get in, so you can kill an hour or two there for next to nothing.

Bars were very low key and not very friendly. Lots of bearded mountain men. Meh. Not a gay city.

Lakeside at Night:

There's always Casa Bonita, the tourist trap Mexican restaurant with the waterfall and the cliff divers and all that was made famous by an episode of South Park. The food is absolute swill, but it's oddly entertaining in its own strange way.

The men in Denver are DEAD!

Got to Eufloria downtown near 16h street mall

Keep ‘em coming!

Charlies is always a blast,and I see its still there.None of the other bars I used to love seem to be though.The Compound (affectionately known as the Dogpound) closed last year,as did Wranglers. Sad,I had some fabulous nights there.It really does seem like Denver isnt the gay mecca it was when I was there.

Yeah I remembered it from the 90s. When I went last year, nothing was still there. Just 2 or 3 symbolic gay bars that could barely muster a crowd. I think of it as a straight millennial city. Very unglamorous and not very gay. Smoke pot, hike and shoot - oh, or be homeless, tons of homeless there.

R11 is right. And those museums are all practically adjacent to each other. Downtown.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science in City Park ls also worthwhile. Close to downtown.

Find out our what the current offerings are at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Downtown.

Washington Park offers much ogling of hot shirtless joggers, tennis, volleyball and basketball players of a late afternoon.

South Santa Fe Drive is an art gallery and antiques district handy to downtown.

Another recommendation for Lakeside if OP enjoys nostalgic kitsch.

A walk through Capitol Hill neighborhood to see some impressive Victorian mansions. Pennsylvania Street east to Downing Street.

I honestly think it is one of the country's most uninteresting cities.

Yeah I don’t get why Denver and Nashville - and Austin for that matter - are attracting so many millennials. So many more interesting cities - Chicago, Philly, even Houston.

R26, I've heard Calgary in Canada is a much more interesting equivalent of Denver. It's just so much colder too.

It's okay to bring 'shrooms.

R27, I would think it attracts a lot of fit people who like its proximity to outdoor and snow sports. Smaller towns like Bozeman, MT and Bend, Oregon attract for the same reasons.

Isn't Denver Swim Club still open? I've known a couple of people who have gone there. It's a multi-room orgy.

If your into 4 hot guys having sex and 30 toads standing there beating off and watching then its the place for you R31.The few times I went there it just had such a blech vibe.

Is that a bathhouse?

I think the mountains are the only real attraction to Denver.

Yes R33 it is.

Last time I was there Charlie’s, the X Bar, the Triangle, and Pride and Swagger are all fairly near each other. Each has its own charm, but as others said, there really isn’t a gayborhood. Cheeseman park went straight 15 plus years ago.

It is a nice city. Great weather, lots to do, expensive. Not a Mecca of gay life but not hostile either.

Sad to hear ... had many good times when I lived in Denver in the 90s ....

Denver is a bigger city with a bunch of small town gay bars. Each bar fits a niche, and the guys stay within their niche. Trade is a leather/bear bar. Gladys does camp and drag. Sweet is new on the scene and aims to cater to the younger more vanilla bear crowd. Charlie's is a country bar who attracts a more diverse crowd, but the regulars are a bit insular. X-Bar is your stand & model bar with an artsy addition above it. Daddy's is your neighborhood watering hole for the older guys. Pride and Swagger is the same for a younger crowd. Hamburger Mary's is what it is. Vybe exists for the Imperial Court drag community. Tracks is the dance club in town and caters to the shirtless twink and muscle queen set. Everything is strikingly average.

The bar scene was a bit more robust back about 15 years ago. You could go out every night to a packed bar and drink yourself silly for very little coin. Even on theme nights, like Thursday underwear night at Trade, don't get the crowds they used to. A lot of the gay community just doesn't do gay bars anymore. With all the hipper, cleaner, and more insta-friendly breweries, beer gardens, and lounges in and around town, gay bars seem a little quaint and dated.

The dykes took Charlie's over. It sucks more than before.

[quote]Can someone explain what the appeal might be to them?

Legal weed?

R39 Honestly it was the only reason to go. Now that CA has it, I’ll likely never go back to Denver again. Nothing worthwhile - unless you’re a skier.

OP have not not been to a “gaybourhood” before? I mean, they are all pretty much the same shit. A bar is a bar is a bar. Why waste your time?

R28, my partner's family lives in Calgary. It's really boring in the winter, it basically shuts down from the cold. Banff and Lake Louise (a couple of hours away) are pretty though.

NYC has legal weed.

Pot and masturbation.

I like to think of it as Denvoid.

If you were dead, we could come up with a bigger list.

God how I lusted after Andy Garcia .

Something sinister about Denver. Always has been.

Hail.

NYC does not have legal weed. Even medical marijuana is much harder to get in NY than most other states. We’re waaay behind the curve on it - mainly because it’s been turned into a police state at the expense of all forms of freedom that made NYC such a vibrant place once.

Well this doesn’t sound encouraging. I’m actually surprised because it seemed for a while that Denver was all the rage.

Oh well, I’m prepared to be underwhelmed.

Can you elaborate r48?

[quote]Kirkland Museum of Decorative Arts

I love their toilet paper!

[QUOTE]Something sinister about Denver. Always has been.

I felt the same way, coudnt wait to get out.

What could it be?

Unfortunately the Wrangler seems to have closed due to some weird controversy with trannies. Sad.

R56 The Wrangler closed because they tried to move to a new location further away from downtown and it failed. The discrimination suit had nothing to do with it.

I was actually there when that incident happened. The guy was super drunk in half-assed drag and tried to get in. The door guy said no and, rather than saying you are too drunk to come in, quoted their gender matching ID policy. The guy went away for about 45 minutes and came back, sobered up by adrenaline. The viral video from the incident is the 2nd visit. The first visit he could barely stand. The door guy handled a drunk customer wrong and they got dinged for it.

There is a new bar ran by essentially the same people called Sweet. It's in a better location (centrally located) and the space is nice.

[quote] For some reason, every man from Denver I've hooked up with has a wild, tremendous bush.

Yum!