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Elitch Gardens

Elitch Gardens

0.38km from Downtown Aquarium

Elitch Gardens is Colorado's only world-class combination theme and water park owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. Guests will discover many reasons to visit the park from the hottest rides to the coolest water slides, 15 KiddieLand attractions, and edge-of-your-seat extreme thrills.

Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus

The Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus is located in downtown Denver at 2121 Children’s Museum Drive. The Museum focuses on early childhood education, serving children newborn through age eight and their caregivers through interactive exhibits and educational programming. The 46,902 square foot building is located on a 9-acre campus and has 20 exhibits and approximately 450,000 visitors annually.

Confluence Park

Confluence Park

0.65km from Downtown Aquarium

This is a living laboratory that allows visitors to gain a greater understanding of the ecotypes of the South Texas region and the function of the San Antonio River watershed. The park includes concrete trails often filled with walkers, runners, and bikers. Some grassy areas, river overlooks, and park benches are also available. Two pedestrian bridges cross the South Platte River and Cherry Creek at Confluence Park.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

0.84km from Downtown Aquarium

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) explores the art and culture of our time through rotating exhibitions and public educational programs in two locations: the Fries Building at 1485 Delgany Street and at the Holiday Theater in Denver's Northside neighborhood.As Denver's first institution devoted entirely to contemporary art, MCA DENVER is housed in a new environmentally sustainable facility designed by David Adjaye.

Larimer Square

Larimer Square

1.37km from Downtown Aquarium

This is the Denver's urban shopping and dining district. Victorian buildings house specialty boutiques and unique chef-driven restaurants. It served as the city's main business area for years, but by the 1900s, it had deteriorated into a run-down area. In 1965, Larimer Square Associates began restoring it as a historical and commercial centre.

Skyline Park

Skyline Park

1.56km from Downtown Aquarium

This one-acre linear park and plaza was a central feature of the Skyline Urban Renewal District, a revitalization plan conceived in the 1950s for Lower Downtown Denver. The park incorporates the Daniels and Fisher Tower in a narrow urban canyon created by stepped, raised planting areas of ruddy concrete. Sunken walkways and courtyards lead to fountains, some with paths through them. Berms of evergreen and deciduous plantings suggesting mountain settings screen the park from the street.

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex

The Ellie is a world-class acoustical hall designed in the lyric style with four levels: balcony, loge, mezzanine and orchestra. It seats 2,225.Originally, the building was a multi-purpose structure: it accommodated concerts, operas, theatrical shows, conventions, basketball, auto shows and even circuses, with flags flying from its domes and light bulbs outlining its pediments, cornice, and corners.

Daniels & Fisher

Daniels & Fisher

1.62km from Downtown Aquarium

The Daniels & Fisher Tower is a distinctive historic landmark located in Denver, Colorado. It was built as part of the Daniels & Fisher department store in 1910, it was the tallest building between the Mississippi River and the state of California at the time of construction, at a height of 325 feet. The 20-floor clock tower has clock faces on all four sides. A 2½ ton bell occupies the top two floors of the building, above the observation deck.

The Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch

This museum offers a unique and up-close look at the nation’s financial system in action. Visitors can learn more about the Fed, view aspects of the payments system and discover how the Fed promotes a healthy economy which positively impacts our daily lives. it is located in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Denver Branch.

16th Street Mall

16th Street Mall

1.69km from Downtown Aquarium

The 16th Street Mall is a pedestrian and transit mall in Denver, Colorado. At over 1.25 miles long, it has FREE shuttle rides going end to end, giving you easy access to more than 250+ stores lining the street making it a favorite tourist destination. There are 42 outdoor cafés along the mall, making it the perfect place to grab a bite to eat or have a drink.

Coors Field

Coors Field

1.75km from Downtown Aquarium

A modern stadium with an old-fashioned feel, this is one of the National League's first new parks built exclusively for baseball since 1962. It is the home field of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies. Opened in 1995, the park is located in Denver's Lower Downtown neighborhood, two blocks from Union Station. The stadium has a capacity of 50,144 people for baseball.

Big Blue Bear

Big Blue Bear

1.84km from Downtown Aquarium

The big blue bear has become an iconic symbol of Denver, a 40-foot, three-story bright blue bear standing outside the Colorado Convention Center staring in through the soaring front windows.The piece was installed at a cost of US$424,400, and was immediately popular with both the public and art community.

Downtown Denver

Downtown Denver

2.01km from Downtown Aquarium

Downtown Denver is the main financial, commercial, business, and entertainment district in Denver, Colorado. There is over 23 million square feet of office space in downtown. Some of the more popular specific attractions include the 16th Street pedestrian mall, Larimer Square, the re-emerging Theatre District near Curtis and 14th, and Civic Center Park.

Larimer Street

Larimer Street

2.06km from Downtown Aquarium

An iconic, lively, and pedestrian-friendly gathering place, Larimer Square is the beating heart and creative soul of downtown Denver.

Denver Firefighters Museum

Denver Firefighters Museum

2.23km from Downtown Aquarium

The Denver Firefighters Museum is a museum in downtown Denver. it consists of an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) facility housing four galleries that explore the history of firefighting in Denver. it include interpretive exhibits and educational programs. The mission is teach everyone how to live safer lives around fire prevention. Housed in the original Station One, which was dedicated on January 2nd, 1882.

Denver Mint

Denver Mint

2.32km from Downtown Aquarium

The Denver Mint is a branch of the United States Mint that struck its first coins on February 1, 1906. The mint is still operating and producing coins for circulation, as well as mint sets and commemorative coins. Coins produced at the Denver Mint bear a D mint mark. The Denver Mint is the single largest producer of coins in the world.

American Museum of Western Art - The Anschutz Collection

The American Museum of Western Art, located in the historic Navarre Building, is the permanent home of the Anschutz Collection. the museum's holdings include examples of early American expeditionary painting, Hudson River School and Rocky Mountain School landscapes, 19th-century American narrative painting, early American modernism, Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction, American Regionalism, “New Deal Art”, and Abstract Expressionism.

The Denver Central Market

The Denver Central Market

2.65km from Downtown Aquarium

Denver Central Market brings a gourmet food emporium and community meeting place to the heart of Colorado's capital city. They house a variety of local vendors, including a bakery, coffee shop, fish market, butcher, rotisserie, chocolate shop, ice cream, wood-fired pizza, salad, and sandwiches.

Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

2.67km from Downtown Aquarium

This is one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast. it is dedicated to helping visitors explore art and creativity through hands-on activities, extensive art collections, and world-class exhibitions. The Museum’s iconic Martin Building (formerly known as the North Building) was designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti in 1971.

Clyfford Still Museum

Clyfford Still Museum

2.7km from Downtown Aquarium

The Clyfford Still Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado. The Museum's collection includes 3,125 works by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980), which represents 93 percent of the artist's lifetime output and complete archives. It also offers nine beautiful galleries of Still’s art, historic photos, objects and letters from the Clyfford Still Archives, interactive features, a pair of tranquil outdoor terraces, views into storage and conservation areas.

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Downtown Aquarium

Downtown Aquarium

700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211, USA

This is a public aquarium and restaurant located in Denver, Colorado at the intersection of I-25 and 23rd Ave. The 107,000 square feet main building sits on a 17-acre site adjacent to the South Platte River. Its freshwater and marine aquaria total approximately 1,000,000 US gallons, and exhibit a variety of fish and other animals.