Another city to visit when in Denver is Boulder. It is about a 45 minutes drive west toward the Flat Irons. Boulder is known as one of the most highly ranked cities for health, well-being, quality of life, education and art.
This may be because there is a beautiful river that runs directly thru a park in the middle of the city.
For lunch, I stopped at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse.
The entire building was built and sent piece by piece from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Boulders sister city.
Built in 1876, this is Old Main on the campus of the University of Colorado.
It was built as the living quarters for the University president and his family. Then it was a library and museum.
I was able to get a picture with a graduate!
Back in Denver I went to the Capitol Building. Built in 1894, it was built out of local white granite.
The dome is painted in gold leaf, in honor of the gold rush of 1908.
There are also 3 places around the building that mark the exact elevation, one mile above sea level. Denver is known as the “Mile High City” for this reason.