Hello all. My wife and I will be in Denver starting June 17th-21st, staying around 21st and Curtis street. We have planned out a good walking tour of local breweries, since there are plenty to choose from close in the area, but wanted to also branch out from the immediate location. So, I was wondering what places we could hit up that are easily accessible via the lite rail lines. Breweries, bars, restaurants, other awesome points of interests all included. Any suggestions welcome. Cheers!
The rail lines head through the middle of downtown (and you aren't far based on your address), so all of the main spots like Great Divide, Wynkoop, Falling Rock, Freshcraft, etc. are easily reachable via the train or just by walking. Pretty much any place in greater downtown is close. Crooked Stave is a bit of a haul, but you can even walk there, too. When you take the train south you can get off at 10th and Osage to reach Renegade, Black Sky, and Breckenridge 471. Strange is a little bit of a walk (maybe a mile or so), but you can walk there too. The west line stop at Federal is close to Wit's End, and the CO. Cider Company. The south lines don't seem to take you super close to any, although there's an Alamo Drafthouse off the Mineral stop in Littleton.
Although I do not live in Denver...yet...I'll be moving there soon and have checked out the public transportation system. As far as I can tell, the light rail system runs mostly to and from the outlying burbs and other large points of interest [the stadiums and arenas mostly] and not around town. That being said, as you have already planned, there are plenty of breweries AND bars within walking distance of 21st & Curtis and if your stay is for 4 days, you won't need to repeat. Enjoy!
This will be a bit more work/time, but might be worth it depending on you. You can take the West line to the end, which is the Jefferson County Govt. Center, which is about 35 minutes from Downtown Denver. From there, they have shuttles (that you pre-arrange), that willl take you anywhere in Golden proper for free. I would suggest going to Cannonball Creek 1st, which has incredibly good beer, then walking to downtown Golden (10 minutes) and hitting all or some of Mountain Toad, Golden City Brewery, Barrels & Bottles and the Coors tour. You can then get a free shuttle back to the Jeffco Govt Center and head back to Denver. Admittedly, that is the better part of a day, but Golden is a beautiful small town on the edge of the foothills with a nice creek, so would be a change of pace.
http://beermapping.com/maps/citymaps.php?m=boulderdenver#lat=undefined&lng=undefined&z=5 Transpose this onto a light rail map will give an idea of what is within reach...depending on how much you'd walk. TRVE, Chain Reaction, Strange, Wit's End, Baere, Declaration, Alpine Dog and Former Future are reachable. The rail does go to Golden, but only to the south end--the breweries are further north. In a decade or so it'll connect DIA with the Springs!
There is a free shuttle into Golden from the light rail station, it will actually take you to any destination you want within Golden proper, including a house, which is awesome.
I had to just click on the City Beer Maps at the top, and re-choose Boulder/Denver Anyone know of a way to download the beer mapping meta data to import into Google maps? The info is awesome, but it doesn't allow for interactions with other locations.
Used to be able to bus it up to Boulder, transfer, and get dropped off a block from the Avery alley. Anybody tried public transpo to the new brewery yet? Is it even possible?
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en&authuser=0&mid=zNfmLG7mySi0.k4c2XWbR-TKw http://www.fermentedlychallenged.com/p/denver-area-breweries-map.html Any of those help?
You know god damn well that Google map is crazy helpful and exactly what I was looking for. How often is that updated? It looks well maintained and super on top of new breweries.
The Fermentedly Challenged one is from Chipper Dave, one of the areas best beer bloggers. That Google one is great whoever is in charge of it. Never seen it before, but I'm impressed. It also puts a lot of things into perspective. Something like 90% of those places have opened since 2010.
I've done it twice. It's basically the same as before except that you catch a different bus at the walnut street station and the ride is a bit longer.
I've walked to Declaration from the light rail and it's less than 5 minutes. Don't forget the train almost goes right through Spangalang
