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Totally agree. Some of my most memorable, live music experiences have been at Red Rocks. I've also seen shows at a number of other Denver area venues, including Ogden Theatre, the Fillmore, Pepsi Center, the Bellco Theatre, and Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre.
If you like music, Denver venues are hard to beat. And since it’s the only major city for hundreds of miles, every band stops there
That's rather absurd. Denver IS the mountains, in the minds of many.
Those "many minds" that you speak of are sadly mistaken. Denver is NOT "the mountains". Denver is a city on the western edge of the Great Plains. Austin, Texas is significantly hillier than Denver. I remember Denver being about as "hilly" as Indianapolis.
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Those "many minds" that you speak of are sadly mistaken. Denver is NOT "the mountains". Denver is a city on the western edge of the Great Plains. Austin, Texas is significantly hillier than Denver. I remember Denver being about as "hilly" as Indianapolis.
The grand majority of the Austin metro isn’t much hillier than Denver. The city isn’t in the mountains itself but people love to conveniently leave out that part of metro Denver actually is. Hill country is beautiful, but can you even find anything comparable to Denver suburbs like Evergreen or Golden in Austin? Even the southern part of Metro Denver with suburbs like Parker, Castle Pines and Castle Rock aren’t flat.
Those "many minds" that you speak of are sadly mistaken. Denver is NOT "the mountains". Denver is a city on the western edge of the Great Plains. Austin, Texas is significantly hillier than Denver. I remember Denver being about as "hilly" as Indianapolis.
Having lived here for 40 years, I know the bold. I was responding to a post that w/o the Rockies (however far they may be from the actual city) would Denver be any more recognized than Albuquerque. People fly into Denver to go to the mountains year-round. You can't really separate Denver from the Rockies.
I've never been to Austin, but I've been to Indianapolis, and I disagree about Indy. There are several city neighborhoods named for "hills", e.g. Capitol Hill, North Capitol Hill, Ruby Hill, Park Hill, North Park Hill, South Park Hill, Northeast Park Hill, University Hills, and also Highlands. Indy is not much hillier than Chicago.
The grand majority of the Austin metro isn’t much hillier than Denver.
I beg to differ. Austin is quite a bit hillier than Denver. Austin is one of the hilliest cities in the United States between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains. Some hills are so long and slow grade you don't even realize you're on a hill unless you're going down. Some hills are so long and steep, you'll wonder if you're gonna make it all the way to the top. Some streets are up one hill and down another, block after block.
I challenge you to ride a bicycle thru out Austin and then come and tell me Austin isn't much hillier than Denver. There's a reason so many professional bicyclists train and live in Austin
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