Bridges Limousine Denver Tour.

Downtown Denver has the urban muscle and the Rocky Mountains have the outdoor might, making Denver one of the country's most desirable and exciting places to visit. Visitors can spend the morning skiing at Denver's Loveland Ski Area, lunch in the afternoon in trendy LoDo and see a live performance at night in one of Denver's many live music venues-all in one day. The following is a selective list of Denver's top attractions, from Denver museums to Denver ski resorts, from Denver's State Capital to Denver's famous museums. For a museum unique to Denver, Capital Hill's Molly Brown House Museum (the "unsinkable" Titanic survivor) pays homage to the raucous Denver woman's life with docents in period costume and is one of the many must-see Denver attractions.

Adams Mystery Playhouse
2406 Federal Boulevard, Denver, CO 80211; Tel. 1.888.203.1975

Adams Mystery Playhouse offers guests one of the most exciting times in Denver: Murder Mysteries! Guests are entwined in the plot as they dine & help solve a mystery. Adams Mystery Playhouse supplies a complete dose of humor alongside suspense & excitement to provide one of Denver's most unusual & surprising entertainment options. Murder Mysteries are available for both adults & kids. more on Adams Mystery Playhouse>>

Loveland Ski Area
3877 Highway 6, Georgetown, CO 80444; Tel. 1.888.468.9554

If there is one thing that Colorado is known for, it's great snow, and one of the best places to experience the Rocky Mountain powder is at Loveland Ski Resort. One of the most popular destinations for locals, Loveland offers 1,365 acres of terrain that ranges from mild, beginner-friendly to wild, experts-only and is the tenth largest ski resort in Colorado. The onsite restaurant is the perfect place to enjoy hot soups, hearty sandwiches and tasty Mexican food when lunch and dinnertime roll around, and sunny days are celebrated by a succulent outdoor barbecue. Loveland is the closest ski resort to Denver and is located just before the Eisenhower Tunnel in the beautiful Arapaho National Forest. more on Loveland Ski Area>>

Red Rocks

8300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, CO 80465; Tel. 1.720.865.2494
The 868-acre Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater, nestled in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just 15 miles outside of Denver near Morrison, was once listed among the Seven Wonders of the World-and with good reason. Ship Rock and Creation Rock, the largest of the monoliths, tower 300 feet above the Red Rocks Amphitheater. These massive brick-colored sandstone monoliths are taller than Niagara Falls. more on Red Rocks>>

Black Hawk

The City of Black Hawk is a town of heavy-set men in snake skin roach killers, cocktail waitresses in short, black mini-skirts, and a hope-a hope that you might win it big. Despite Black Hawk's 22 casinos (which is more than Atlantic City), the town lacks the neon glow that characterizes its bigger-than-life counterparts, Reno, Las Vegas of the boats in Kansas City. Instead, it has something very Colorado: cowboys. more on Black Hawk>>

16th Street Mall
16th St., Denver, CO 80202

16th Street Mall is Denver's hub of shopping, dining and entertainment that stretches for 16 blocks in the heart of downtown between Market and Broadway Street. Locals and visitors alike enjoy strolling down the Mall's wide, pedestrian friendly sidewalks to people watch and visit with friends. The street is also wi-fi friendly for business people and students. more on 16th Street Mall>>

Cherry Creek

Just a few minutes down Speer Boulevard from Downtown Denver, visitors & locals alike will find some of Denver's best restaurants, such as local-favorite Ocean Restaurant, boutique shopping, and luxury hotels in Cherry Creek. Cherry Creek is populated by some of Denver's most well-to-do citizens, and the upscale neighborhood provides one of the best escapes from Downtown for a $5 cab ride. more on Cherry Creek>>

Colorado State Capitol
Lincoln and Colfax Sts., Denver CO; Tel. 303.866.2604

Denver is well known as "the mile-high city," but visitors will be surprised to find that it is also one of the flattest major U.S. cities-- it's actually located on a wide Rocky Mountain platte. For confirmation that you really are a mile high, climb the front stairs of the State Capitol Building until you reach the 15th step (marked for your convenience), an official 5,280 feet above sea level. In addition to being able to check off another box on your list of Denver tourism stops, take a tour of the Corinthian-style Colorado granite Capitol with its gold leaf covered dome.

Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York St., Denver CO; Tel. 720.865.3500

There are several reasons that Denver's fine botanic paradise in the city was just named one of the top ten such public gardens in the nation by Country Living Gardener magazine, but here's one of the most touching: This garden takes advantage of all the senses, providing touchable, smellable, tasty, colorful and aural outdoor experiences all rolled into one. The therapeutic garden also serves as a landscape-design model for the facilities that cater to patrons with disabilities or special needs, featuring wheelchair-accessible paths, raised beds, container plantings and other amenities. (Review: Westword)

Elitch Gardens
2000 Elitch Circle, Denver, Colorado; Tel. 1.303.595.4386

Imagine an amusement park located a quick five-minute drive from downtown Denver's excitement. Load the kids into a taxi and head to Elitch Gardens, home of the Minderaser coaster and the looming Tower of Doom, both of which offer stunning views of the mountains and downtown-at a price. Should you have a heart murmur, or just a fear of free falling, visit the 350-foot observation tower at Denver's Elitch Gardens or relax on the vintage 75-year-old carousel. Over 40 other rides and a Looney Toons playland for the kids complete the amusement park experience.

LoDo (Lower Downtown)

Designated a Historic District in 1988, this redbrick Victorian neighborhood had fallen on hard times until a massive revitalization project reclaimed the 26 block area LoDo District in Denver. Since then, live-work lofts and hip and high-end restaurants have dominated the streets. The famed Tattered Cover bookshop is here, as is Denver's historic Union Station. LoDo is also the center of Denver nightlife and as the sun sets in the Rockies, the streets pack with tourists and locals alike, taking advantage of jazz clubs, upscale techno and retro dance clubs, as well as assorted cocktail lounges and local bars. Anchoring the Northern edge of Denver's LoDo is the sparkling brick edifice of Coors Field-home to Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies, one of the only professional sports stadiums in the country that sits about one mile above sea level.

The Molly Brown House Museum
1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver CO; Tel. 303.832.4092

The looming quasi-mythic figure of "the Unsinkable Molly Brown," a survivor of the Titanic's demise, exists on the periphery of America's cultural memory. However, this educated, dismissed-by-high-society doyenne deserves a more extensive handling. After her husband J.J. discovered gold in nearby Leadtown, Margaret "Molly" Brown moved into a quaint stone home on Capitol Hill. Denver society grudgingly accepted her while feeding media smears on a woman they perceived as brash and uneducated. In the years following her death, her house was sold and became a home for wayward girls, but was reclaimed and restored by a Denver preservation society. Women in period dress, some modeled after Molly's actual dresses, lead you through the three-story home while educating you on some of the historic dame's exploits.

U.S. Mint
320 W. Colfax, Denver Colorado; Tel. 1.303.405.4761

Originally opened in the mid-1800s to change gold and silver found by miners and prospectors in the surrounding hills into coins and ingots, the Denver facility was bought by the US Treasury in 1863 and transformed into a US Mint. However, it wasn't until 1906 that the Denver facility began actually minting coins after being an Assay Office for the interim years. Today, free twenty-minute tours at the Denver based US Mint show visitors how blank ore become treasury coins.