OCTOBER 2017 businesstraveller.com

VISIT DENVER/STEVE MOHLENKAMP

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riday morning at 7.30am, the Crawford hotel,

downtown Denver. I am in the epicentre of the

city; the elegant hotel forms part of the recent

redevelopment of the historic Union Station

terminal, at one time the main railway hub for

the Colorado capital. I’m waiting for the lift to take

me down for breakfast in one of the 1914 Beaux-Arts

building’s many buzzing cafés and restaurants.

Because of the hotel’s unrivalled location, and the

hour, I expect the doors to open to a fellow business

traveller, or maybe a jet-lagged tourist. I do not expect

Lively attractions and easy access to the

Rocky Mountains make the Colorado capital

well worth your time, says Philip Watson

Denver

delivers

58 I Weekend in... Denver

to see a young couple in full, colour-coordinated ski

gear, complete with skis, poles, boots, gloves, goggles,

helmets and Go Pro cameras.

They look like they’ve stepped off a ski lift in

Switzerland’s upmarket Gstaad – not into an urban

US elevator. They tell me a waiting minibus will be

whisking them and some friends off to the Loveland

Ski Area, 90km and about an hour and a half west of

the “Mile-High City”, in the glorious Rocky Mountains.

If it was a weekend during the ski season, they

wouldn’t even need the private shuttle – they could