#*Put the guidebook down and join Historic Denver on the LoDo Walking Tour!*
##Duration
1 Hour and 30 Minutes
##LoDo Walking Tour Details
From Union Station to Wynkoop, Tattered Cover to Warehouse Row, learn how the largest collection of historic warehouses in the West transformed from railroad hub to skid row to urban hot spot.
All tours are led by a corps of passionate and highly-trained citizen docents tell the story of Denver’s founding, the arrival and impact of the railroad, the way buildings grew up around Union Station, and the transformation of the neighborhood – now a national model for how to balance preservation and development.
###On this guided walking tour you will:
– View one of the finest collections of late 19th and early 20th-century commercial buildings in America, historic hotels, and adaptive reuse projects.
– Get a sense of what it felt like to arrive in and live in Denver at the turn of the 20th century.
– Find out how Denver’s population mimicked the mining industry’s ups and downs.
– Learn the reasons the neighborhood became a hot-spot, and understand the architecture that still makes LoDo unique.
– The tour will take place in the Lower Downtown Historic District, a national model for how to balance preservation and development.