chkadea Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) Hey cuties! I'm heading out to Denver next week and will also be traveling through to Boulder and Estes Park, and was hoping y'all could shoot me some suggestions of your favorite things to check out in any of those areas? From what I've gathered, Wax Trax and Twist and Shout will probably be on the agenda, but if there's anything fun/kooky/interesting to see, I'd love to hear about it! Any advice/suggestions are greatly appreciated! Some notes: Vegetarian suggestions would be cool, but any restaurant is fine, too Not intending to smoke, and what drinking we do is pretty limited, but again, suggestions welcome! Dark beers + whiskey are favorites Won't have too much time for snowboarding, but 3-4 hour hikes/excursions are doable! Edited January 3, 2017 by chkadea trying to not be a dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 It may help if you narrow stuff down. A decent portion of my time spent when in Colorado involves alcohol / recreational drug use. If you aren't interested in that stuff then we won't suggest it. Any diet limitation. Vegetarian / vegan. You are going in winter are you interested in any winter sports. Skiing / snowmobile. i usually go for 4 days and spend two doing outdoors shit and two going to concerts. chkadea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 9 minutes ago, Tidal Wave said: It may help if you narrow stuff down. A decent portion of my time spent when in Colorado involves alcohol / recreational drug use. If you aren't interested in that stuff then we won't suggest it. Any diet limitation. Vegetarian / vegan. You are going in winter are you interested in any winter sports. Skiing / snowmobile. i usually go for 4 days and spend two doing outdoors shit and two going to concerts. Gotcha - updated it to be a bit more helpful hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughbeingcruel Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Watching this thread because I'm planning a Denver trip myself. Although, I will be looking to smoke. Lots. chkadea and The Butcha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freki Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Restaurants that might be your jam in Boulder: Leaf (vegetarian) Thrive (vegan) The Kitchen (omnivorous; 3 different restaurant iterations all next to each other) You'll be coming in the middle of winter which means there could either be 2 feet of snow on the ground or sunny and pleasant. It's pretty challenging to actually make outdoors plan. That said, there's isn't much you can find in Boulder that Denver doesn't already have, minus proximity to outdoors (some good hiking right out of the downtown area). The "center" of town is Pearl Street, and this is where most of the bars and restaurants are (along with a pedestrian mall). Pretty easy to kill a couple of hours just walking down it if you're visiting. There's also some good tea houses and coffee shops. Let me know if you have any more specific questions... chkadea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sad Heart Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Waiting for Kevin to come in here and be like 'dude, pick me up some weed'. chkadea and The Butcha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 http://www.cograilway.com/pikes-peak.asp I did this back in September, it was pretty awesome! chkadea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 6 hours ago, Dave Grohl said: Waiting for Kevin to come in here and be like 'dude, pick me up some weed'. Oddly enough, that is the only "souvenir" anyone seems to want haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 8 hours ago, Freki said: Restaurants that might be your jam in Boulder: Leaf (vegetarian) Thrive (vegan) The Kitchen (omnivorous; 3 different restaurant iterations all next to each other) You'll be coming in the middle of winter which means there could either be 2 feet of snow on the ground or sunny and pleasant. It's pretty challenging to actually make outdoors plan. That said, there's isn't much you can find in Boulder that Denver doesn't already have, minus proximity to outdoors (some good hiking right out of the downtown area). The "center" of town is Pearl Street, and this is where most of the bars and restaurants are (along with a pedestrian mall). Pretty easy to kill a couple of hours just walking down it if you're visiting. There's also some good tea houses and coffee shops. Let me know if you have any more specific questions... Thanks for those ideas! Excited to check them out I'm used to far more snow than that, so I should be prepared for any outdoorsy things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seangj Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I live in Estes Park. Are you coming for the MBD shows? I'll be at Friday and Saturday. Also we have a couple of good breweries and one distillery. Let me know if you want to grab a drink or take a hike in the national park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NapalmBrain Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) Black & Read in Arvada is even better than Wax Trax but definitely check out Twist (and the Tattered cover book store next door). Also if you are in that area and enjoy burgers go to City Grille it's not too far and it's amazing (whoops just saw the veggie limitation they probably have options, it's very upscale for burgers). Chain Reaction records in lakewood is really cool too but it's strictly punk and metal records but they have like shirts/pins/patches and other cool curios. The only veggie/vegan I can think of is Marquis, great place to see a cheap show and they have pretty good pizza with punk themed pizza names I think the vegan one is the tofugazi made with the vegan cheese Edited January 4, 2017 by NapalmBrain chkadea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 10 hours ago, seangj said: I live in Estes Park. Are you coming for the MBD shows? I'll be at Friday and Saturday. Also we have a couple of good breweries and one distillery. Let me know if you want to grab a drink or take a hike in the national park. Yeah! We're heading there for the Sunday show, and just exploring around CO that weekend (if Frontier airlines doesn't mess everything up!) Will do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughbeingcruel Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Shit, you're going to see Murder By Death? I'm not a fan, but they're from here. It'd be hilarious to see a band from the same town as me play a show across the country haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seangj Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 21 hours ago, chkadea said: Yeah! We're heading there for the Sunday show, and just exploring around CO that weekend (if Frontier airlines doesn't mess everything up!) Will do Awesome. Let me know if you guys have time for a beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 3 hours ago, throughbeingcruel said: Shit, you're going to see Murder By Death? I'm not a fan, but they're from here. It'd be hilarious to see a band from the same town as me play a show across the country haha. Haha, I'm from the Midwest as well! I've caught them in Seattle, Portland, Palatine, Chicago, Madison, and soon Estes Park. No one is from where I'm at, so traveling is always necessary 2 hours ago, seangj said: Awesome. Let me know if you guys have time for a beer Deal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I'm gonna be looking for stuff as well in Denver.. but i'm moving there at the end of the month. Can't wait for the cold weather.. so looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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