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Coors Field: Colorado Rockies baseball with altitude
Pure and simple, Coors Field was built for baseball—a grand slam for Colorado Rockies players and fans since its ceremonial first pitch in 1995. Original plans called for 43,800 seats, but the team attracted amazing attendance numbers during its inaugural year at Mile High Stadium and seating was increased to 50,000-plus. Coors Field hosted its first World Series in 2007 and when tickets went on sale online, the system crashed in the first hour from sheer demand.

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Denver Zoo: Going wild in City Park
The Denver Zoo has come a long way from its simple beginning in 1896, when an orphaned black bear named Billy became the first official resident in City Park. Currently housing 3,500 animals on 80 acres, viewing has shifted from a minimal number of indoor enclosures to open, naturalistic habitats. Today, the zoo presents its visitors with a myriad of animal interaction, education and special events.

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Colorado Convention Center: Clean and "green," with a big blue bear
In 1990, the Colorado Convention Center opened amid hoopla and high hopes of energizing tourism in downtown Denver. The gorgeous, sleek design was unanimously admired. But when out-of-state meeting planners visited, they voiced concern about more space and the lack of a nearby, convention-sized hotel…then took their business elsewhere. Denver listened. In 2004, a $310 million expansion doubled the venue—followed by a super-sized hotel across the street and more than 8,000 rooms just a walk away.

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Red Rocks Park & Ampitheatre rocks on
Magical. Inspiring. Amazing. Try to describe the concert experience at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and you can end up running the gamut of superlatives. The Beatles, U2 and the Grateful Dead are just a few of the music icons who have played “on the Rocks” since its official opening in 1947. Talk with industry performers both past and present, and they are positively reverent about a 9,000-seat venue literally carved into natural rock formations just 15 miles west of Denver.

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The Denver Aquarium: Visit the ocean close to home
You love the sea and all its creatures — but here you are in landlocked Denver, 1,000 miles away from the waves. No problem. The Denver Aquarium brings the ocean habitat to you.

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The Boulder Theater: Art Deco jewel hosts latest acts
When you walk inside the historic Boulder Theater, you may feel as though you're transported to another time. In fact, you can catch the newest live acts in one of Boulder's oldest and most recognizable venues.

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Water World: one of America's top water parks
At Water World, when you’re out in the newly revamped Thunder Bay and the Big Wave finally sweeps over you like a tsunami, you’ll probably live to tell about it — and then to come back for more.

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Colorado History Museum: a young state's rich past brought to light
If you've never been to the Colorado History Museum, you might think a state as young as Colorado wouldn't have much of a past. Well, think again.

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Colorado Symphony Orchestra: a classical blast
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra showcases such superstars as pianist Lang Lang and Yo-Yo Ma while playing all the great works of classical music that you might expect from a major, big-city symphonic orchestra. But the orchestra delivers much else besides.

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The "Wild West" lives on at Buffalo Bill Museum
Flamboyant showman William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the epitome of the adventurous spirit of the Old West, and city-run Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave takes pride in celebrating his life with videos, photos and artifacts. Buffalo Bill’s actual gravesite is located at the museum’s secluded Lookout Mountain site and ghost stories abound—to the point that TV ghost-hunters dropped in to investigate.

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