The Best City in the US

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The city for stoners and scholars, gay rights and human rights, sun worshippers and skiers, artists and performers, beer lovers and bike riders.

Could Denver, Colorado be the best city in the United States?

Well, where else can you find…


  • 25 days of sun a month (or 300 days of sun a year) (or more sun than San Diego or Miami)
  • The highest percentage of high school and college graduates in the country
  • Legalized marijuana
  • A population that is 52% white, 32% Hispanic, 10% black and two of the last four mayors have been African American
  • The skinniest city (in the skinniest state) in the country
  • State recognized civil unions
  • The biggest urban park system in the United States (205 parks, dudes)
  • 650 miles of paved bike trails (Distance between Denver and Vegas? 753 miles)
  • One of the first three states in the US to allow women to vote
  • 25 ski resorts within 100 miles of the city
  • The second largest performing arts center in the United States
  • 200 visible mountain peaks, 32 of which are over 13,000 feet
  • A self imposed 10th of a cent sales tax which raises $36 million dollars a year, making Denver the largest art collecting municipality in the country
  • The only city in the US to say, “Thanks, but no thanks” to the Olympics
  • The same amount of precipitation as Los Angeles
  • Seven sports teams
  • Average high temperature in February? 49
  • More beer brewed daily (80 varieties) than in any other city in the US + extra thin air to get you drunker –  faster

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129 thoughts on “The Best City in the US”

  1. Wrong on a few accounts…

    1. Not the biggest urban park system in the US. It’s ranked 17. Minneapolis is #1, even San Francisco (#3) with less than 1/3 the land area has just about the same space devoted to parks as Denver (5300park/29000city versus vs 5900park/97000city dedicated park space/city acreage).

    2. Portland is the brewery capital, it brews more than anywhere else in the US.

  2. The airport sucks, the wildfire sucks, you are neighbors with Wyoming and Nebraska, the winters suck. Yes, I hate Denver. You can have it. I book my flights to avoid Denver.

  3. I used to live in Denver. It was a great city for the above reasons. I’m not sure of the “A population that is 52% white, 32% Hispanic, 10% black and two of the last four mayors have been African American”. What does that even mean? At least it’s not that white?????

    Additionally, Denver kinda has a lame live music scene, at least in terms of old school soul, blues, jazz, rock.

    Plenty of bad jam bands and mediocre bluegrass….

  4. AS a political moderate, I find the far-right and the far-left disappointing. I can look past all the self-serving liberal crap of bike trails and rainbows; however, the comment about the “last four mayors” having been African American, cannot go without comment.
    Is it possible the point not their skin-color, but their contributions to the community and the Denver area? Is it possible that this is the typical liberal method of feeling better about one’s self? Is it possible that the higher calling is to see people as people, instead of the self-lauding, grand-standing “look at how many ‘people of color'” I know?
    If we see past the prefunctory color of one’s skin, and look at the myriad of diversity of mind, we would indeed achieve something.

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