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As one of Denver’s oldest business districts, LoDo has seen Colorado’s gold rush, the industrial era, skid row, and finally urban revitalization. Experience LoDo’s history through a guided walking tour, and learn about some of Denver’s most beautiful buildings—hotels, business houses, saloons, and brothels, along with the often notorious individuals who occupied them. Hear how preservation efforts, in celebration of LoDo history, saved many buildings that exist today.

Interested in taking a tour?


There are several tour options, so see below for details

Reservations are recommended, but not required

Walk-ins Welcome; Private Group Tours Available for groups of 6 or more.

For reservations and tour information, contact Kevin Rucker, LoDo Walking Tour Coordinator, at ruckerk@mscd.edu (best) or via phone at 303.914.6100 x 3846.

TOUR #1 - All Ages Welcome Tour*

All tours are from 2-4 p.m.

Wednesday        September 1, 8, 15, 29

                              October 6, 13, 20, 27

                              November 3, 10, 17

                              December 1, 8, 15, 22

Price:

$10 Adults (18 and above)

$5 with any College Student or Military ID; Ages 13-17; Seniors 62+; and all LoDo District, Inc. Members

Free to children under 12

 

TOUR #2 - 21 & over - From Gold Camp to Paris on the Platte*

Attendees will be regaled with tales of early Denver's movers and shakers, conmen and desperados, brothels and opium dens, ghost stories, and Denver firsts, from cheeseburgers to lethal gas chambers.

All tours are 3-6 p.m.     

Saturdays          September 11, 18, 25

                            October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

                            November 6, 13, 20, 27

                            December 4, 11, 18

Free appetizers are served twice on the tour.

Price:
$20 Adults
$15 with any College Student ID; Seniors 62+; and all LoDo District, Inc. Members

*All LoDo tours meet at The Market, 1445 Larimer Street

NEW!-TOUR #3-Civic Center Tour

Join LoDo District, Inc. tour coordinator and historian Kevin Rucker for a tour of some of Denver's grand examples of monumental architecture.  Tours begin at 1 p.m. in the outside Commons Area between the Denver Public Library and the Denver Art Museum at 14th and Acoma.  The tour's route includes the Byers-Evans House, U.S. Mint, Civic Center, interior tour of the Colorado State Capitol, Our Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, Central Presbyterian Church, Trinity Methodist Church and the Brown Palace.

All tours are 1-4 p.m.     

Mondays            September 13, 20, 27

                            October 4, 11,18, 25

                            November 1, 8, 15

                            December 6, 13, 20

Price:
$10 Adults (18 and up)
$5 with any College Student ID; Seniors 62+; and all LoDo District, Inc. Members

Free to Children under 12

Tours Meet at the Commons Area between the Denver Public Library and the Denver Art Museum at 14th and Acoma.