Travel Snapshot – Colorful Colorado

We planned this Colorado trip as a chance to get away for a few days, celebrate a birthday with a concert, and explore a new town/area in the state. We enjoyed everything we did here including great food, new scenery, going to our first Rockies game at Coors Field in 9 years, and having a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Red Rocks Amphitheater

Trip Type:

Road Trip

Destination(s) Visted:

Longmont, Southwest Denver/Littleton, Morrison, Black Hawk, and downtown Denver

Where We Stayed:

• Fairfield in Denver Southwest/Littleton
• The Monarch Resort
• Sonesta Denver

Favorite Memory:

We were lucky to score two tickets to the Lewis Capaldi concert at Red Rocks. This was a huge deal as he took a few years off to take care of himself and, when he announced his US tour, he only planned 11 cities. Tickets sold out so quickly that a second night was added. When it was time for the show, the weather wasn’t the greatest. It was cold with rain/sleet and even some wind. We donned what we thought would be warm enough gear (after all, it was a lot of the same stuff we took to Iceland), and grabbed seats in the 11th row. Turns out the weather wasn’t in his favor either… or was it!?! Technical difficulties likely caused by the rain resulted in a slight delay and ultimately the most magical concert imaginable. Lewis Capaldi… completely acoustic… at Red Rocks Amphitheater… in the rain. It was moody and moving and magical. Even as he said, it truly was a once-in-a-lifetime experience as he has never done that before. We will never forget that night.

Would We Go Back:

Absolutely, yes! We actually have a few other trips to the Denver area coming up later this year. Red Rocks is our favorite concert venue, and we feel it is worth the drive from out of state to get there. We generally always enjoy spending time in downtown Denver as well. This was our first trip to Black Hawk, a popular gambling town located in the mountains just outside of Denver. This town (population 106) is really cute and the size of some of the large gambling resorts really surprised me. Keep in mind, if you don’t gamble, there isn’t a whole lot else to do, but it’s fun to walk around and we also enjoyed the rooftop hot tub at the Monarch Resort. We also like the occasional opportunity to watch professional live sports, and Denver allows us that opportunity. We hadn’t been to a Colorado Rockies game at Coors Field in 9 years until scoring free tickets to a game. We couldn’t pass that up.

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