Walking tour of either LoDo in general, or Larimer Square to the D&F Tower, or architecture along 17th Street. All meet at the flagpole in front of Union Station.

The LoDo tour ranges from Union Station to Wynkoop, Tattered Cover to Warehouse Row, learn how the largest collection of historic warehouses in the West transformed from railroad hub to skid row to urban hot spot.

In the Larimer Square tour, explore Denver’s oldest block and learn about the first city center, its transformation to a skid row, and how local citizens saved the block of buildings from demolition to create Denver’s first historic district. Then enjoy views of the city from 400 feet above ground, at the top of the D&F clock tower.

Seventeenth Street shows how Denver’s built environment today results from roller-coaster economies, with many booms and busts over the past 160 years. We’ll see historic buildings that Denver’s first successful settlers built, adjacent to glamorous modern buildings from this century, and we’ll learn how Denver’s earliest entrepreneurs developed Denver as a financial center and a “supply center” for the inland western U.S./ Rocky Mountain region.

All tours are led by a corps of passionate and highly-trained citizen docents tell the story of Denver’s founding, the arrival and impact of the railroad, the way buildings grew up around Union Station, and the transformation of the neighborhood – now a national model for how to balance preservation and development.