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10 BEST Downtowns Near Denver (Ranked)

Ryan Haarer

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Relocating to Denver or thinking about buying and selling in the Denver Colorado real estate market? I'm Ryan Haarer with LIV Sotheby's International Realty, helping buyers and sellers navigate the Denver metro with deep market insight and honest, data-driven guidance.
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Everyone thinks downtown Denver is the heart of the metro, but the real weekend energy moved somewhere else. Here's my honest ranking of the ten best downtowns to actually live near, counting down to number one.
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CHAPTERS

0:00 The Good Stuff Isn't Downtown
0:40 Why The Core Feels Off
1:33 The Mountain Feel Nearby
3:46 What Mountain Living Costs
4:04 Where The Locals Actually Go
5:39 The Family Main Street
7:11 Life Below The Butte
8:26 The Pocket Nobody Leaves
10:14 The Biggest Comeback Story
11:18 Worth The Drive Out
12:36 The Corner That Never Sleeps
13:55 The Beverly Hills Of Denver
15:40 The One I Choose
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@RyanHaarerColorado Creator 1 month ago Pinned

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@craigestory6230 1 month ago

Castle Rock also has one of the oldest bars. A huge buffalo head greets you and it has a cowboy feel. Awesome food , gotta get the fish fry dish 🎉🎉🎉

@artur30389 1 month ago

Golden is great, but the weekends bring in way too many people who don’t match the vibe of the place at all.

@milehihandyman 1 month ago

Parker is not a "master planned community". There are planned developments around Parker, but parker itself is not. Many of the buildings date back to when the population of Parker was only 300 people.

@Baboohasspoken 1 month ago

Great list

@davidford8936 1 month ago

Excellent video, Ryan!

@lealugerlynch802 1 month ago

Born and raised in Denver. I love your picks. Excellent 💜

@MrFantuv 1 month ago

Obviously not apart of the Denver Metro but downtown Fort Collins is quite lovely

@cynthiac6110 1 month ago

Downtown Louisvi;lle and Lafayette are nice. I figure #1 was going to be Boulder. Of course I remember a downtown with out the Pearl street mall.

@EnigmaMan-h3z 1 month ago

I remember when Parker was one bar!

@janniebee9501 1 month ago

Cherry Creek is all grown up now. It used to be like Pearl Street is niw, with ma and pa shops and restaurants. Now it's more commercial.

@DanielGarcia1980 1 month ago

Evergreen is in Jefferson County, i.e. it's a Denver suburb. Evergreen is one of the Mountain Communities (Evergreen, Coifer, Aspen Park, Genesee).

@SquidFox9 1 month ago

Used to go to raves in the warehouse district that is now the Rhino district in the 90s and early 2000s. There was nothing there but run down warehouses. Whoever bought those properties back then would have paid penny’s on the dollar for what it goes for now.

@bomboy7 1 month ago

And you used to get three free beers if you moseyed into Coors without even taking the tour!

@ttopero 1 month ago

While I’ve learned that real estate agents are marketers 1st, 2nd & 3rd, so they’re free to use any label that makes a sale, I’ll argue one point of Cherry Creek. While we have more expensive properties just south & a few miles south, Cherry Creek is as close to the Rodéo Dr district we have in the metro. In fact, I’m recommending that Clayton Ln from Cherry Creek Dr to 3rd Ave as Rodeo Dr to honor something authentic to the old ‘cow town.’ We won’t have the blocks lined with overpriced “luxury” brands, but it’s shaping up to be premium space anyway, and high rents to boot! And no, Cherry Creek is not a downtown either!😉

@metra160 1 month ago

Should have included Louisville!

@rickj1983 1 month ago

Boulder. The only real estate available there for under a million, condos or entry level houses. Be prepared to spend $1.5 million and up for a decent home. I love Boulder and wish I could have afforded to buy prior to their building moratorium decades ago, but that's life.

@fitfaststrong5380 1 month ago

Been here for 40 years. I lived all over the metro area. You missed all of the gems to the north of the city. Louisville. Niwot. Erie. Loveland . Ft. Collins. Way better than those on your list except Arvada and Golden. They deserved a spot in the top ten. Maybe Evergreen and Parker too.

@janniebee9501 1 month ago

Downtown Denver is working through the increased crime that came about after we became a sanctuary city....drug based homeless was everywhere, crime increased.