15 Reasons You Should Never, Ever Visit Denver

Huff Post Travel ^ | 5 Jan, 2016 | Sarah Bourassa

[MtnClimber]

Ahhh Denver, Colorado. Sounds pretty enchanting, doesn't it? Well, don't let the Mile High City fool you. Here are 15 reasons why you definitely don't want to visit Denver any time soon. 1. When you look west, you have to look at this:

[ican'tbelieveit]

You would have been in heaven this week. After a couple of weeks of daily snow, the front range is STUNNING!

I live just off of I-25 and get to drive west every morning to work.

My comrade at work in another state tried to convince me to move to that state. I send her pictures on a regular basis of the view on my drive to and from work.

She commented to the HR director that she was trying to get me to move to their state, HR director laughed: yeah, we aren’t going to get them to move here.

[bluejean]

“But just a little to the south, is Colorado Springs”

OMG shut up! We don’t want the attention!

[jsanders2001]

> I thought Chicagoans were authorities on everything...: ) Why yes...Yes we are. And don't you forget it :)

lol

[mountn man]

which means I'm automatically an authority on pizza)

thin or deep dish?

Actually, I'll admit to liking both.

There is a place that I like for thin crust. It's 15-20 minutes away, by expressway.

In high school, there was a great thick crust place, right here in town.

My favorite deep dish is Uno's. Giordano's has a real good stuffed pizza.

Spent 13 years as a jr high leader in my old church. Pizza is its own food group for jr high kids.

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[Nailbiter]

Thin crust is my preference, although post about honey and crust may change my mind.

[EternalVigilance]

(Butte Mt is not only a mile high, it's also a mile deep)

LOL...

[TBP]

I have been to Denver, but only to change planes.

[mountn man]

I've got some friends that used to live just off I-25, in Centennial, right by Regis University.

I love the drive heading west up 285. Especially by Kenosha Pass.

[dfwgator]

Bob Seger - Get Out of Denver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf8KoaN_dF8

[JSDude1]

They’re also rude as all get out. I live here, and moving from Wilmington, NC last year: Californians are rude, and they’re intolerant of Americans in flyover country.

[wardaddy]

Denver and Pueblo and Boulder and a few of the tourist towns are lib fests but it’s a gorgeous state still with plenty of great people

I get tired of cranky freepers who simply piss in 360 degrees 24/7 about everything

When I was a boy in the 60s Colorado was perfect but even then Denver was not all that great

Worst thing about Denver is it’s simply not very pretty and more full of hipsters than hippies

But you just drive west 30 minutes and it’s frigging unbelievable.....

But in one little swipe.....why on earth did they put a Cat Chow plant smack downtown

Sorry cat ladies but damn does it stink in summer with a northern breeze

[This_far]

Town paid good money for that slogan ... well, they probably scammed it off of the Anaconda Mining Co.

[mountn man]

Beau Jo's calls their pizza mountain pies. They serve them by the pound.

For me, once I'm outside the Chicago area, I have a hard time finding pizza I like.
I will make it a point to stop at Beau Jo's in Idaho Springs. The pizza is real good. The building is the old assayers office, so its over 100 years old, with crooked wooden floors, in an old mining town. Just kinda cool to me.

[wardaddy]

You’re actually automatically an authority on green rivers too

But what you call pizza is a thin pie crust with 3-4 inches of cheese and goodies baked on top

Tasty no doubt but heavy heavy

One slice and I’m anvil gut

Giordanos Malnatis etc....gotta love it

[Fiji Hill]

On August 27, 1961, I had dinner at te Holiday Inn on East Colfax in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. In December, 2014, the site of the Holiday Inn was a vacant lot that inhabited by dozens of geese.

On several occasions between Aughst 20 and August 27, 1961, I would stop for a meal or refreshments at the A & W Root Beer stand at Peoria and Colfax, which was thriving. In 2014, this site was part of a parking lot for a shuttered supermarket.

[mountn man]

My favorite area is Estes Park.

Yeah, it's touristy. But after Sept or Oct, the tourists leave and it becomes a nice quiet little town.

[Mollypitcher1]

We always used to say, “even the angels change wings in Atlanta.” I avoid Atlanta like the plague and make my change of planes elsewhere much easier.

[Nailbiter]

Since I rarely travel anymore- when I do I look at local diners for meals.
I have affinity for local eateries of non pizza variety.

I think only pizza joint I can name not in my home state is Vineyard in Michigan. Makes a good Hawaiian pizza

[mountn man]

But what you call pizza is a thin pie crust with 3-4 inches of cheese and goodies baked on top

Tasty no doubt but heavy heavy

One slice and I’m anvil gut

That's funny...considering Beau Jo's sells their mountain pies BY THE POUND.!!!