Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo) Tours and Activities

Folks have been drawn to Denver for over a century -- find out why on this downtown adventure exploring the Queen City of the Plain’s rich past, glinting with the promise of gold and other “riches” of the Rocky Mountains. Join our team of local guides a mile high up and take in the fascinating stories, beautiful architecture, and modern food-and-drink scene on this orientation tour of Colorado’s capital city.

Take a unique look at Denver’s rich past on this guided, 2.5-hour history and whisky tour. Enjoy special access to locations like the famous Cruise Room in the Oxford Hotel, the oldest hotel in Denver, plus special access in and around LoDo (lower downtown), the historic Five Points district and more. The tour ends at Mile High Spirits for a sampling of some of the best cocktails and spirits the city of Denver has to offer.

Discover why Denver is nicknamed the ‘Napa Valley of Craft Beer’ on a fun and social beer tour and pub crawl through the historic Lower Downtown (LoDo) district. Pop in to four local breweries to taste more than 10 samples of Colorado craft beer with an expert hops-, ale-, and lager-loving guide. Find out how Denver became the center of the craft brewing movement in the West, and walk off all those tastings with a jaunt through the city’s oldest and most dynamic neighborhood.

Experience Denver like never before on this guided, 3-hour, small-group, motor-scooter tour. Learn about the city’s history and architecture while visiting favorite locations like Confluence Park, Lower Downtown (LoDo), National Velvet, LoHi, Denver Highlands, Colorado Convention Center, Coors Field, Denver Union Station and much more. Ride on side streets and multi-lane roads. Guided training plus a helmet, eye protection, sunscreen and more are included.

Take a deeper look into Denver and get to know why locals love the Mile High City so much. On this tour, your local guide will show off downtown Denver’s incredible historic architecture and tell you stories of how this pioneer town came to be the capital of Colorado. In addition to seeing the city’s most iconic landmarks including the Capitol State Building and Union Station, you’ll get a chance to see preservation and revitalization side-by-side at historic Larimer Square. Throughout the tour, your guide will make sure to point out the best places to eat, drink, shop, and play in and around Denver!

NOTE: We limit the number of guests on each tour; because of this, this tours tends to sell out quickly. This is where it all began, in 1856. This walking tour is a fun adventure through the oldest and most trendy neighborhood in Denver. You will be treated haunted stories, scandalous events, and historic locations. Some of the stops include: The Dairy Block, Larimer Square, Union Station, Coors Field, Brothel Row, Rockmount Ranch Wear, The Oxford Hotel (the oldest hotel in Denver), LoDo, Cat Alley, Sukura Square, D & F Clock Tower, and the 16th Street Mall, plus much more. We will stop at the Dairy Block, for coffee and snacks.

Experience the best of the Mile High City's culture, cuisine and cocktails on this diverse city and food tour of Denver. Taste specialty bites from Voodoo Donuts and the city’s hottest food trucks, sip craft spirits from local distilleries and learn about Denver’s evolution from a silver boom town to Colorado’s cosmopolitan capital.

Dive deep into Denver’s cocktail scene and join us to discover the fascinating backstories of the city’s most popular drinks and where they fit in with the history of Denver and Colorado. We’ll sip on some incredible concoctions on this walking tour of downtown Denver and learn all about the Mile High city’s salacious and spirited past. We’ll delve into the fascinating backgrounds of Prohibition-era cocktails at Denver’s modern-day speakeasies, historic bars, and local joints and maybe even get to try out local twists on cocktail classics. Your drinks are on us, so sit back, soak up the stories from your local guide and our compelling bartenders, and enjoy the ambience of lower downtown’s best drinking establishments!

Sample the best of Colorado’s spirits with a 4.5-hour tour of two cutting-edge distilleries in Denver. Get an insider’s look at the craft alcohol scene as you visit the small-batch Mile High Spirits, and sample six of their most distinctive bottles, including bourbon, gin, rum and tequila. Continue to Laws Whiskey House, and take a seat in the 'whiskey church' to learn how the distillers mill and cook their grains before open-air fermentation. Taste a total of eight spirits and a cocktail chaser, then return to downtown.