Denver Labor Day Fly In
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:32 pm
Spent the holiday weekend in Denver. Flew into Centennial Airport south of the Tech Center at I-25 and 470. Very large for a general aviation airport, as if Wheeler Downtown, JoCo Executive, and New Century were all combined and next to Corporate Woods. Stayed DT at the Warwick, which I would highly recommend. It is at the southeast corner of DT, where DT runs into Capitol Hill and Midtown. Huge 500 square foot rooms all with balcony. Asked for west facing room and got panoramic view of DT and Rocky Mountains. Weather so fine, every meal I had was outdoors. 17th Street becoming quite a restaurant row. Would recommend Stuebens, an upscale diner, and Limon, a Peruvian bistro. Taste of Denver was going on, Colfax blocked off for it. Spent Sunday in the mountains and was distressed at the extent of forest death since I had been in the mountains last about 5 years ago. Seems like the pine beetles have killed half the trees and the aspens are taking over. Wondered about the fire hazard of all the dead wood, and then when we left Centenial saw the northern horizon blocked by the low lying smoke of the Boulder fires.